Texas Penal Code Title 2, Chapter 8 - General Defenses To Criminal Responsibility

• Texas Section 8.01 - Insanity
  (a) It is an affirmative defense to prosecution that, at the time of the conduct charged, the actor, as a result of severe mental disease...
• Texas Section 8.02 - Mistake Of Fact
  (a) It is a defense to prosecution that the actor through mistake formed a reasonable belief about a matter of fact if his mistaken belief...
• Texas Section 8.03 - Mistake Of Law
  (a) It is no defense to prosecution that the actor was ignorant of the provisions of any law after the law has taken effect. (b)...
• Texas Section 8.04 - Intoxication
  (a) Voluntary intoxication does not constitute a defense to the commission of crime. (b) Evidence of temporary insanity caused by intoxication may be introduced by...
• Texas Section 8.05 - Duress
  (a) It is an affirmative defense to prosecution that the actor engaged in the proscribed conduct because he was compelled to do so by threat...
• Texas Section 8.06 - Entrapment
  (a) It is a defense to prosecution that the actor engaged in the conduct charged because he was induced to do so by a law...
• Texas Section 8.07 - Age Affecting Criminal Responsibility
  (a) A person may not be prosecuted for or convicted of any offense that the person committed when younger than 15 years of age except:...
• Texas Section 8.08 - Child With Mental Illness, Disability, Or Lack Of Capacity
  (a) On motion by the state, the defendant, or a person standing in parental relation to the defendant, or on the court's own motion, a...

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