Definitions

Question 1

Assault

Answer 1

The unlawful attempt, coupled with the present ability, to commit a violent injury on the person of another, intentionally placing another person in reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm.

Question 2

Battery

Answer 2

Any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another.

Question 3

Burglary

Answer 3

Every person who, either by day or night, enters any structure with intent to commit grand or petit larceny, any felony, assault, or battery, is guilty of burglary.

Question 4

Corpus Delicti

Answer 4

The substantial and fundamental facts necessary to prove the commission of a specific crime or offense.

Question 5

Crime

Answer 5

A crime is an act or omission forbidden by law, punishable upon conviction by death, imprisonment, fine or other penal discipline.

Question 6

Elements of a Crime

Answer 6

In every crime or public offense, there must exist a union or joint operation of act and intention or criminal negligence.

Question 7

Evidence

Answer 7

All the means by which any alleged matter of fact, the truthfulness of which is submitted for investigation, is established or disproved.

Question 8

Home Invasion

Answer 8

Every person who, by day or night, forcibly enters an inhabited dwelling without permission of the owner, resident or lawful occupant, which involves any act of physical force resulting in damage to the structure, whether or not a person is present at the time of the entry, is guilty of invasion of the home.

Question 9

Homicide

Answer 9

The killing of one human being by another.

Question 10

Intent

Answer 10

Intention is manifested by the circumstances connected to the perpetration of the offense and the sound kind and discretion of the person accused.

Question 11

Larceny from Person

Answer 11

The unlawful taking, from the person of another, without his consent, any money, property or thing of value, under circumstances not amounting to robbery.

Question 12

Manslaughter

Answer 12

The unlawful killing of a human being without malice, either expressed or implied, and without any mixture of deliberation.

Question 13

Mayhem

Answer 13

Unlawfully depriving a human being of a member of his body or disfiguring or rendering it useless.

Question 14

Prima facie Case

Answer 14

Legally sufficient to establish a fact or a case unless disproved.

Question 15

Probable Cause

Answer 15

Probable cause exists when the facts and circumstances known to the officer would warrant a prudent man in believing that a crime had been committed and that the accused had committed it.

Question 16

Robbery

Answer 16

The unlawful taking of personal property from the person of another, or in his presence, against his will, by means of force or violence or fear of injury immediate or future.

Question 17

Sexual Assault

Answer 17

A person who subjects another person to sexual penetration, or who forces another person to make a sexual penetration on himself or another, against the victim’s will is guilty of sexual assault.

Question 18

Sound Mind

Answer 18

A person shall be considered of sound mind who is not an idiot and who has reached the age of 14 years or, before that age, if such person knew the distinction between good and evil.

Question 19

Statutory Sexual Seduction

Answer 19

Statutory sexual seduction means ordinary sexual intercourse, anal intercourse, cunnilingus or fellatio committed by a person 18 years of age or older with a consenting person under the age of 16 years.

Question 20

Arrest

Answer 20

The taking of a person into custody in a case and in the manner authorized by law.