Years ago in Florida they used to say that if you shot a fellow you needed to drag him inside to make it legal. There was a case thirty or so years ago where a man and his wife came home from an evening out. Upon opening the front door of their apartment a thief barged out and took off running. The husband was carrying and he shot and killed the intruder. Prosecutor Janet Reno charged him with homicide in the 2nd degree and a jury of his peers found him not guilty.