TEXAS PENAL CODE TITLE 1. INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec. 1.01. SHORT TITLE Sec. 1.02. OBJECTIVES OF CODE Sec. 1.03. EFFECT OF CODE Sec. 1.04. TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION Sec. 1.05. CONSTRUCTION OF CODE Sec. 1.06. COMPUTATION OF AGE...
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The full text of Sexual Coercion in Texas can be found insection 21.18 of the Texas Penal code. A person commits a sexual coercion offense if the person intentionally threatens (including by coercion or extortion) to commit: Prostitution Human Trafficking (certain sections) Continuous Sexual Assault...
This app contains statutes current with the 88th Legislature. This application provides the full text of the Texas Penal Code in an easily readable and search…
Texas Penal Code Section 12.31(b) and Witherspoon: An Irreconcilable PairBroocks, LindaAm.j.crim.l Texas Penal Code
Texas DWI laws, found at the state'sPenal Code Section 49, make it a crime for a person of any age to drive while intoxicated (DWI). Intoxication is defined as a driver whose normal faculties are impaired by alcohol or drugs, legal or illegal, or as a driver who has a blood alcohol...
TEXAS PENAL CODE: THEFT ofordinary theft since there was no trespassory talng from the possessor. 103. Id. § 31.10, at 932.104. Tex. Penal Code art. 1410 (1953). 105. Id. arts. 1437-38. 106. Id. art. 1429 (Supp.Solomon, Thomas...
Texas Penal Code §§12.32-35. Things can be even more serious if the accused is facing charges involving human trafficking or when a minor is involved. For instance, online solicitation of a minor comes with a statutory requirement that the accused register as a sex offender un...
TheTexas Penal Code §21.11offense can be established even if the accused was not aware at the time of the event that the minor was indeed younger than 17 years of age. If the minor claims to be an adult, or at least 17 years old, then that fabrication will not serve to prevent arre...
The 6 April search warrant “ordered a search of the YFZ Ranch for evidence of marriages between females under the age of seventeen and adult males, and of pregnancies and births by females under the age of seventeen.”3 The call turns out to have actually originated from a mentally u...