APD Test 3 Penal Code

APD Test 3 Penal Code

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Effect of Code: Not an offense unless defined by what 4 items?
Statute; Municipal Ordinance; Order of a county commissioners court; or rule authorized by and adopted under a statute
Computation of Age
A person attains a specified age on the day of the anniversary of his birth date
Definition: Act
Bodily movement, voluntary or involuntary, including speech
Definition: Actor
A person whose criminal responsibility is in issue in a criminal action
Definition: Bodily injury
Physical pain, illness,or any impairment of physical condition
Definition: Coercion
Means a threat, however communicated:
-to commit an offense
-to inflict bodily injury in the future
-to accuse a person of any offense
-to expose a person to hatred
-to harm the credit or business repute of any person
-to take or withhold action as a public servantDefinition
Definition: Conduct
An act or omission and its accompanying mental state
Definition: Deadly Weapon
- a firearm or anything manifestly designed 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
Definition:Effective Consent
Consent by a person legally authorized to act for the owner.

Not effective: Induced by force, threat or fraud; Given by person not authorized to act for owner; Given by person who by reason of youth, mental disease, or intoxication is known to be unable to make reasonable decisions; Given solely to detect the commission of an offense
Definition: Elements of Offense
The forbidden conduct; The required cupability; Any required result; And the negation of any exception to the offense
Definition: Felony
An offense so designated to law or punishable by death or confinement in a penitentiary
Definition: Harm
Anything reasonably regarded as loss, disadvantage, or injury including harm to another person in whose welfare the person affected is interested
Definition: Individual
A human being who is alive including an unborn child at ever stage of gestation from fertilization until birth
Definition: Misdemeanor
An offense so designated by law or punishable by fine, by confinement in jail or both
Definition: Omission
Failure to act