Penal Code Flashcards
Sec. 6.01 Requirement of Voluntary Act or Omission: A person commits an offense only if he voluntarily engages in conduct, including an ____, an _______ or _______.
act, omission, possession
Culpable mental states are classified according to relative degrees, from highest to lowest, as follows:
(1) intentional
(2) knowing
(3) reckless
(4) criminal negligence
A person acts _________, with respect to the nature of his conduct or to a result of his conduct when it is his conscious objective or desire to engage in the conduct or cause the result.
intentionally, or with intent
A person acts ________, with respect to the nature of his conduct or to circumstances surrounding his conduct when he is aware of the nature of his conduct or that the circumstances exist. A person acts ______, with respect to a result of his conduct when he is aware that his conduct is reasonably certain to cause the result.
knowingly, or with knowledge
A person acts with ________________, with respect to circumstances surrounding his conduct or the result of his conduct when he ought to be aware of the substantial and unjustifiable risk that the circumstances exist or the result will occur. The risk must be of such a a nature and degree that the failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that an ordinary person would exercise under all the circumstances as viewed from the actor’s standpoint.
criminal negligence
A person is ______________ if the result would not have occurred but for his conduct, operating either alone or concurrently with another cause, unless the concurrent cause was clearly sufficient to produce the result and the conduct of the actor clearly insufficient.
criminally responsible
(a) A person commits an offense if, with specific intent to commit an offense, he does an act amounting to more than mere preparation that tends but fails to effect the commission of the offense intended.
(b) If a person attempts an offense that may be aggravated, his conduct constitutes an attempt to commit the aggravated offense if an element that aggravates the offense accompanies the attempt.
(c) It is no defense to prosecution for criminal attempt
that the offense attempted was actually committed.
15.01. CRIMINAL ATTEMPT
A person commits ______ if, with intent that a felony be committed:
(1) he agrees with one or more persons that they or one or more of them engage in conduct that would constitute the offense; and
(2) he or one or more of them performs an overt act in pursuance of the agreement.
15.02. CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY
(a) A person commits an offense if, with intent that a capital felony or felony of the first degree be committed, he requests, commands, or attempts to induce another to engage in specific conduct that, under the circumstances surrounding his conduct as the actor believes them to be, would constitute the felony or make the other a party to its commission.
15.03. CRIMINAL SOLICITATION
(a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly abducts another person.
(b) It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under this section that:
(1) the abduction was not coupled with intent to use or to threaten to use deadly force;
(2) the actor was a relative of the person abducted; and
(3) the actor’s sole intent was to assume lawful control of the victim.
20.03 KIDNAPPING
(a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly abducts another person with the intent to:
(1) hold him for ransom or reward;
(2) use him as a shield or hostage;
(3) facilitate the commission of a felony or the flight after the attempt or commission of a felony;
(4) inflict bodily injury on him or violate or abuse him sexually;
(5) terrorize him or a third person; or
(6) interfere with the performance of any governmental or political function.
(b) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally or knowingly abducts another person and uses or exhibits a deadly weapon during the commission of the offense.
20.04. AGGRAVATED KIDNAPPING
(a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally uses a motor vehicle, aircraft, or watercraft to transport an individual with the intent to:
(1) conceal the individual from a peace officer or special investigator; or
(2) flee from a person the actor knows is a peace officer or special investigator attempting to lawfully arrest or detain the actor.
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), an offense under this section is a state jail felony.
(c) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree if the actor commits the offense:
(1) for pecuniary benefit; or
(2) in a manner that creates a substantial likelihood that the transported individual will suffer serious bodily injury or death.
20.05. SMUGGLING OF PERSONS
Intentionally or knowingly causes the death of an individual
Murder
Murder of peace officer or fireman acting in lawful discharge of official duty; murder while escaping or attempting to escape from a penal institution; murder in the course of committing kidnapping, burglary, robbery, aggravated sexual assault, arson, obstruction or retaliation, or terroristic threat; murder for hire; murders more than one person; murder of a child under 10 all define what?
Capital Murder
Recklessly causes the death of an individual?
Manslaughter
Causing the death of an individual with criminal negligence
Criminally Negligent Homicide
To restrict a person’s movement without consent
Restrain
To restrain a person with intent to keep them hidden defines what?
Abduct
individual, corporation, or association
Person
A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly restrains another person
20.02 Unlawful Restraint
A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly abducts another person?
20.03 Kidnapping
A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly abducts another person with the intent to hold him for ransom or reward?
20.04 Aggravated Kidnapping
A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly abducts another person with the intent to inflict bodily injury on him or violate or abuse him sexually?
20.04 Aggravated Kidnapping
A person commits an offense if the personal intentionally or knowingly abducts another person and uses or exhibits a deadly weapon during the commission of the offense?
20.04 Aggravated Kidnapping