Texas Penal Code 2 (Latest 2023 - 2024)
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- Objectives of Code
- Territorial Jurisdiction
Answer: -To insure the public safety through: (A) the deterrent influence of the penalties hereinafter provided; (B) the rehabilitation of those convicted of violations of this code; and to guide and limit the exercise of official discretion in law enforcement to prevent arbitrary or oppressive treatment of persons suspected, accused, or convicted of offenses; and (6) to define the scope of state interest in law enforcement against specific offenses and to systematize the exercise of state criminal jurisdiction.
Answer: Either the conduct or a result that is an element of the
offense occurs inside this state
- Computation of Age
Answer: A person attains a specified age on the day of the
anniversary of his birth-date.
- Act
Answer: A bodily movement, whether voluntary or involuntary,
and includes speech.
- Actor
Answer: A person whose criminal responsibility is in issue in a
criminal action. Whenever the term "suspect" is used in this code, it means "actor."
- Agency
Answer: Includes authority, board, bureau, commission,
committee, council, department, district, division, and office. 1 / 4
- Bodily Injury
Answer: Means physical pain, illness, or any impairment of
physical condition.
- Serious Bodily Injury
Answer: Bodily injury that creates a substantial risk of death or that
causes death, serious permanent disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ.
- Coercion
- Conduct
Answer: Means a threat, however communicated: (A) to commit an offense; (B) to inflict bodily injury in the future on the person threatened or another; (C) to accuse a person of any offense; (D) to expose a person to hatred, contempt, or ridicule; (E) to harm the credit or business repute of any person; or (F) to take or withhold action as a public servant, or to cause a public servant to take or withhold action.
Answer: Means an act or omission and its accompanying mental
state.
- Correctional Facility
Answer: Means a place designated by law for the confinement of a
person arrested for, charged with, or convicted of a criminal
offense. The term includes:
(A) a municipal or county jail; (B) a confinement facility operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice; (C) a confinement facility operated under contract with any division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice; and (D) a community corrections facility operated by a community supervision and corrections department.
- Deadly Weapon
Answer: A firearm or anything manifestly designed, made, or 2 / 4
adapted for the purpose of inflicting death or serious bodily injury; or (B) anything that in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of causing death or serious bodily injury.
- Consent
Answer: Means assent in fact, whether express or apparent.
- Effective Consent
Answer: Includes consent by a person legally authorized to act for
the owner. Consent is not effective if:
(A) induced by force, threat, or fraud; (B) given by a person the actor knows is not legally authorized to act for the owner; (C) given by a person who by reason of youth, mental disease or defect, or intoxication is known by the actor to be unable to make reasonable decisions; or (D) given solely to detect the commission of an offense.
- Element of Offense
Answer:
(A) The forbidden conduct; (B) The required culpability; (C) Any required result; and (D) The negation of any exception to the offense.
- Felony
Answer: An offense so designated by law or punishable by death or
confinement in a penitentiary.
- Harm
Answer: Anything reasonably regarded as loss, disadvantage, or
injury, including harm to another person in whose welfare the person affected is interested.
- Individual
Answer: A human being who is alive, including an unborn child at
every stage of gestation from fertilization until birth. 3 / 4
- Misdemeanor
Answer: An offense so designated by law or punishable by fine, by
confinement in jail, or by both fine and confinement in jail.
- Possession
Answer: Means actual care, custody, control, or management.
- Public Place
Answer: Any place to which the public or a substantial group of the
public has access and includes, but is not limited to, streets, highways, and the common areas of schools, hospitals, apartment houses, office buildings, transport facilities, and shops.
- Public Servant
Answer: A person elected, selected, appointed, employed, or
other- wise designated as one of the following, even if he has not
yet qualified for office or assumed his duties:
(A) an officer, employee, or agent of government; (B) a juror or grand juror; or (C) an arbitrator, referee, or other person who is authorized by law or private written agreement to hear or determine a cause or controversy; or (D) an attorney at law or notary public when participating in the performance of a governmental function; or (E) a candidate for nomination or election to public office; or (F) a person who is performing a governmental function under a claim of right although he is not legally qualified to do so.
- Reasonable Belief
Answer: A belief that would be held by an ordinary and prudent
man in the same circumstances as the actor.
- Secure Correctional Facility
Answer: A municipal or county jail; or
(B) a confinement facility operated by or under a contract with any division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
- Unlawful
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Answer: Criminal or tortuous or both and includes what would be