Texas Penal Code Definitions

Question 0

Actor

Answer 0

A person whose criminal responsibility is in issue in a criminal action. Whenever the term “suspect” is used in this code it means actor.

Question 1

Act

Answer 1

A bodily movement, whether voluntary or involuntary, and includes speech

Question 3

Act

Answer 3

A bodily movement, whether voluntary or involuntary, and includes speech.

Question 4

Actor

Answer 4

a person whose criminal responsibility is in issue in a criminal action. Whenever the term "suspect" is used in this code, it means "actor."

Question 5

Agency

Answer 5

includes authority, board, bureau, commission, committee, council, department, district, division, and office.

Question 6

Another

Answer 6

means a person other than the actor

Question 7

Association

Answer 7

a government or governmental subdivision or agency, trust, partnership, or two or more persons having a joint or common economic goal.

Question 8

Benefit

Answer 8

Anything reasonably regarded as economic gain or advantage, including benefit to any other person in whose welfare the beneficiary is interested.

Question 9

Bodily Injury

Answer 9

Physical pain, inllness, or any impairment of physical condition.

Question 10

Coercion

Answer 10

A threat, however comminicated:

(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

Question 11

Conduct

Answer 11

a act or omission and its accompanying mental state

Question 12

Consent

Answer 12

assent in fact, whether expressed or apparent

Question 13

Corporation

Answer 13

includes nonprofit corporations, professional associations created pursuant to statute, and joint stock companies.

Question 14

Correctional Facility

Answer 14

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 minicipal 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 fo Criminal Justice; and

(D) a community corrections facility operated by a community supervision and corrections department.

Question 15

Deadly Weapon

Answer 15

(A) A firearm or anything manifesting designed, made, or 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

Question 16

Effective Consent

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Element of offense

Answer 17

(A) the forbidden conduct

(B) the required culpability

(C) any required result; and

(D) the negation of any exception to the offense

Question 18

Felony

Answer 18

an offense so designated by law or punishable by death or confinement in a penitentiary

Question 19

Government

Answer 19

(A) the state;

(B) a country, municipality, or political subdivision of the state; or

(C) any branch or agency of the state, a county, municipality, or political subdivision

Question 20

Reasonable Belief

Answer 20

Means a belief that would be held by an ordinary and prudent man in the same circumstances as the actor.

Question 21

Rule

Answer 21

Includes regulation

Question 22

Secure correctional facility

Answer 22

(A) a municipal or county jail; or

(B) a confinement facility operated by or under contract with any division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice

Question 23

Serious Bodily Injury

Answer 23

Bodily injury that creates a substancial risk of death or that causes death, serious permanent disfigurement, or protracted loss or imparement of the function of any bodily member or organ.

Question 24

Swear

Answer 24

affirm

Question 25

Unlawful

Answer 25

criminal or tortious or both and includes what would be criminal or tortious but for a defense not amounting to justification or privilege

Question 26

Death

Answer 26

for an individual who is an unborn child, the failure to be born alive; or

the definition of a term in this code applies to each grammatical variation of the term

Question 27

Harm

Answer 27

anything reasonably regarded as loss, disadvantage, or injury, including harm to another person in whose welfare the person affected is interested

Question 28

Individual

Answer 28

a human being who is alive, including an unborn child at every stage of gestation from fertilization until birth

Question 29

Law

Answer 29

the constitution or a statute of this state or of the United States, a written opinion of a court commissioners court, or a rule authorized by and lawfully adopted under a statute.

Question 30

Misdeameanor

Answer 30

an offense so disignated by law or punishable by a fine, by confinement in jail, or by both a fine and confinement in jail.

Question 31

Oath

Answer 31

includes an affirmation

Question 32

Official Proceeding

Answer 32

any type of administrative, executive, legislative, or judicial proceeding that may be conducted before a public servant

Question 33

Omission

Answer 33

failure to act

Question 34

Owner

Answer 34

means a person who:

(A) has a title to the property, possession of the property, whether lawful or not, or a greater right to possession of the property than the actor; or

(B) is a holder in due course of a negotiable intrument

Question 35

Peace Officer

Answer 35

a person elected, employed, or appointed as a peace officer under Article 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, Section 51.212 or 51.214, Education Code, or other law

Question 36

Penal Institution

Answer 36

a place designated by law for confinement of persons arrested for, charged with, or convicted of an offense

Question 37

Person

Answer 37

an individual, corporation, or association

Question 38

Public Place

Answer 38

any place which the public or a substantail 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

Question 39

Public Servant

Answer 39

a person elected, selected appointed, employed, or otherwise designated as one of the following, even if he has not yet qualified for office or assumed his duties:

(A) an officer, emploee, or agent of government;

(B) A juror or grand juror; or

(C) an arbutrator, referee, or other person who is aauthorized 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 government 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 quallified to do so.