means a bodily movement, whether voluntary or involuntary, and includes speech
act
means a person whose criminal responsibility is an issue in a
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actor
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includes authority, board, bureau, commission, committee, council, department, district, division and office
agency
means a government or governmental subdivision or agency, trust, partnership, or two or more persons having a joint or common economic interest
association
means anything reasonably regarded as economic gain or advantage, including benefit to any other person in whose welfare the beneficiary is interest
benefit
means physical pain, illness, or any impairment of physical condition
bodily injury
means a threat 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, or to take or withhold action as a public servant, or to cause a public servant to take or withhold action
coercion
means an act or omission and its accompanying mental state
conduct
means assent in fact, whether express or apparent
consent
includes non-profit corporations, professional associations created pursuant to statute and joint stock companies
corporation
means 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 municipal or county jail
a confinement facility operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
A confinement facility operated under contract with any division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
A community corrections facility operated by a community supervision and corrections department
correction facility
means
A firearm or anything manifestly designed, made or adapted for the purpose of inflicting death or serious bodily injury
Anything that in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of causing death or serious bodily injury
deadly weapon
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includes consent by a person legally authorized for act of the owner.
effective consent
Four Elements of the Offense
The forbidden conduct
The required culpability
Any required result
The negation of any exception to the offense
means an offense so designated by law or punishable by death or confinement in a penitentiary
felony
means
The state
A county, municipality, or political subdivision of the state
Any branch or agency of the state, a county, municipality, or political subdivision
Government
means anything reasonably regarded as loss, disadvantage, or injury including harm to another person in whose welfare the person affected is interested
harm
means a human being who is alive, including an unborn child at every state of gestation from fertilization until birth
individual
means the constitution or a statue of this state or of the United States, a written opinion of a court of record, a municipal ordinance, an order of a county commissioner's court, or a rule authorized by and lawfully adopted under a statute
law
means an offense so designated by law or punishable by fine, or confinement in jail, or by both fine and confinement in jail
misdemeanor
includes affirmation
oath
means any type of administrative, executive, legislative, or judicial proceeding that may be conducted before a public servant
official proceeding
means failure to act
omission
means a person who
has title to the property, possession of the property, whether lawful or not, or a greater right to possession of the property that the actor
is a holder in due course of a negotiable instrument
owner
means a place designated by law for confinement of person arrested for, charged with, or convicted of an offense
penal institution
means an individual, corporation or association
person
means actual care, custody, control or management
possession
means any place to which the public or a substantial 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
public place
means 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
an officer, employee or agent of government
a juror or grand juror
an arbitrator, referee, or other person who is authorized by law or private written agreement to hear or determine a cause or controversy
an attorney at law or notary public when participating in the performance of a governmental function
a candidate for nomination or election to public office
a person who is performing a governmental function under a claim or right although he is not legally qualified to do so
public servant
means a belief that would be held by an ordinary and prudent man in the same circumstances as the actor
reasonable belief
includes regulation
rules
means
a municipal or county jail
a confinement facility operated by or under a contract with any division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
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