Term | Definition |
Benefit | Anything reasonably regarded as economic gain or advantage |
Bodily Injury | physical pain, illness or any impairment of physical condition |
Coercion | Threat |
Deadly Weapon | firearm or anything manifestly designed, made or adapted for the purpose of inflicting death or SBI |
Elements of the Offense | Forbidden conduct, required culpability, any required result, negation of the exception |
Felony | offense punishable by death or confinement in a penitentiary |
Government | the state, a county, municipality, and any branch of the Great State of Texas |
Misdemeanor | offense punishable by fine, by confinement in jail or both |
Official Proceeding | any administrative, executive or judicial proceeding that may be conducted by a public servant |
Owner | a person with title to property or a greater right to possession than the actor |
Public Place | any place to which the public or a substantial group of the public has access |
Public Servant | employee or agent of government |
Serious Bodily Injury | bodily injury causing a substantial risk of death or that causes death, serious permanent disfigurement or protracted loss of a bodily organ |
Act | bodily movement, whether voluntary or involuntary and includes speech |
Penal Institution | place designated by law for confinement of persons arrested for, charged with or convicted of an offense |
Effective Consent | consent by a person legally authorized to act for the owner |
Secure Correctional Facility | municipal or county jail and facilities of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice |
Omission | Failure to act |