Code of Alabama - Title 13A: Criminal Code - Chapter 2 - Principles of Criminal Liability

• Article 1 Culpability.
• Section 13A-2-1 Definitions - Generally
  The following definitions apply to this Criminal Code: (1) ACT. A bodily movement, and such term includes possession of property. (2) VOLUNTARY ACT. An act...
• Section 13A-2-2 Definitions - Definitions of culpable mental state
  The following definitions apply to this Criminal Code: (1) INTENTIONALLY. A person acts intentionally with respect to a result or to conduct described by a...
• Section 13A-2-3 Requirements for criminal liability in general and for offenses of strict liability and of mental culpability
  The minimum requirement for criminal liability is the performance by a person of conduct which includes a voluntary act or the omission to perform an...
• Section 13A-2-4 Construction of statutes with respect to culpability requirements
  (a) When a statute defining an offense prescribes as an element thereof a specified culpable mental state, such mental state is presumed to apply to...
• Section 13A-2-5 Causal relationship between conduct and results; relationship to mental culpability
  (a) A person is criminally liable if the result would not have occurred but for his conduct, operating either alone or concurrently with another cause,...
• Section 13A-2-6 Effect of ignorance or mistake upon liability
  (a) A person is not relieved of criminal liability for conduct because he engages in that conduct under a mistaken belief of fact unless: (1)...
• Section 13A-2-7 Consent
  (a) In general. - The consent of the victim to conduct charged to constitute an offense or to the result thereof is a defense if...
• Article 2 Parties to Offenses.
• Section 13A-2-20 Criminal liability based upon behavior
  A person is criminally liable for an offense if it is committed by his own behavior or by the behavior of another person for which...
• Section 13A-2-21 Criminal liability based upon behavior of another - Accountability imposed by statute
  A person is legally accountable for the behavior of another person if he is made accountable for the behavior of such person by the statute...
• Section 13A-2-22 Criminal liability based upon behavior of another - Conduct of an innocent person
  (a) A person is legally accountable for the behavior of another if, acting with the culpable mental state sufficient for the commission of the offense...
• Section 13A-2-23 Criminal liability based upon behavior of another - Complicity
  A person is legally accountable for the behavior of another constituting a criminal offense if, with the intent to promote or assist the commission of...
• Section 13A-2-24 Criminal liability based upon behavior of another - Exceptions
  Unless otherwise provided by the statute defining the offense, a person shall not be legally accountable for behavior of another constituting a criminal offense if:...
• Section 13A-2-25 Criminal liability based upon behavior of another - Certain defenses not available
  In a prosecution for an offense in which criminal liability is based upon the behavior of another person pursuant to this article, it is no...
• Section 13A-2-26 Criminal liability of an individual for corporate conduct
  A person is criminally liable for conduct constituting an offense which he performs or causes to be performed in the name of or in behalf...

Last modified: May 3, 2021