Penal Code Flashcards
A bodily movement whether voluntary or involuntary, and includes speech.
Act
A person whose criminal responsibility is in issue in a criminal action. Suspect.
Actor
Includes authority, board, bureau, commission, committee, council, department, district, division, and office.
Agency
Alcohol, or any beverage containing more than one-half of one percent of alcohol by volume, which is capable of use for beverage purposes, either alone or when diluted.
Alcoholic Beverage
A person other than the actor.
Another
A government or governmental subdivision or agency, trust, partnership, or two or more persons having a joint or common economic interest.
Association
Anything reasonably regarded as economic gain or advantage, including benefit to any other person in whose welfare the beneficiary is interested.
Benefit
Physical pain, illness, or any impairment of physical condition.
Bodily Injury
A threat, however communicated:
- to commit an offense
- to inflict bodily injury in the future on the person threatened or another
- to accuse a person of any offense
- to expose a person to hatred, contempt, or ridicule
- to harm the credit or business repute of any person
- to take or withhold action as a public servant, or to cause a public servant to take or withhold action.
Coercion
An act or omission and its accompanying mental state.
Conduct
Assent in fact, whether express or apparent.
Consent
A substance, including a drug, an adulterant, and a dilutant, listed in Schedules I through V or Penalty Groups 1, 1-A, or 2 through 4.
Controlled Substance
Includes nonprofit corporations, professional associations created pursuant to statute, and joint stock companies.
Corporation
A designated by law for the confinement of a person arrested for, charged with, or convicted of a criminal offense.
Correctional Facility
A device or a drug that is unsafe for self-medication and that is not included in Schedules I through V or Penalty Groups 1 through 4 of Chapter 481 (Texas Controlled Substances Act).
Dangerous Dug
A firearm or anything manifestly designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of inflicting death or serious bodily injury; or anything that in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of causing death or serious bodily injury.
Deadly Weapon
A substance, other than a device or a component, part, or accessory of a device, that is:
(A) recognized as a drug in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, official National Formulary, or a supplement to either pharmacopoeia or the formulary;
(B) intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or animals;
(C) intended to affect the structure or function of the body of man or animals but is not food; or
(D) intended for use as a component of a substance described by Paragraph (A), (B), or (C).
Drug
Includes consent by a person legally authorized to act for the owner.
Effective Consent
A facility that generates electric energy for distribution to the public.
Electric Generating Plant
A facility used to switch or change voltage in connection with the transmission of electric energy for distribution to the public.
Electric Utility Substation
(A) the forbidden conduct;
(B) the required culpability;
(C) any required result; and
(D) the negation of any exception to the offense.
Elements of Offense
An offense so designated by law or punishable by death or confinement in a penitentiary.
Felony
(A) the state;
(B) a county, municipality, or political subdivision of the state; or
(C) any branch or agency of the state, a county, municipality, or political subdivision.
Government
Anything reasonably regarded as loss, disadvantage, or injury, including harm to another person in whose welfare the person affected is interested.
Harm