TEXAS PENAL CODE EXAM LATEST ACTUAL EXAM
What class offense consists of at least a $4,000 fine, at least 1 year in jail, or both
fine and jail. - ANSWER: Class A misdemeanor
What class offense consists of at least a $2,000 fine, at least 180 days in jail, or both
fine and jail. - ANSWER: Class B misdemeanor
What class offense consists of at least a $500 fine. - ANSWER: Class C misdemeanor
What class offense consists of death, life without parole, or a life sentence. -
ANSWER: Capital Felony
What offense consists of a life sentence, or 5-99 years in confinement, or
confinement and at least a $10,000 fine? - ANSWER: 1st Degree Felony
What offense consists of 2-20 years in confinement, or confinement and at least a
$10,000 fine? - ANSWER: 2nd Degree Felony
What offense consists of 2-10 years in confinement, or confinement and at least a
$10,000 fine? - ANSWER: 3rd Degree Felony
What offense consists of 180 days-2 years in confinement, or confinement and at
least a $10,000 fine? - ANSWER: State Jail Felony
Physical pain, illness, or any impairment of physical condition. - ANSWER: bodily
injury
A place designated by law for the confinement of a person arrested for, charged
with, or convicted of a criminal offense. - ANSWER: correctional facility
A firearm or anything manifestly designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of
inflicting death or serious bodily injury. - ANSWER: deadly weapon
Consent by a person legally authorized to act for the owner. - ANSWER: effective
consent
An offense so designated by law or punishable by death or confinement in a
penitentiary. - ANSWER: felony
A human being who is alive, including an unborn child at every stage of gestation
from fertilization until birth. - ANSWER: individual
An offense so designated by law or punishable by fine, by confinement in jail, or by
both fine and confinement in jail. - ANSWER: misdemeanor
, Failure to act. - ANSWER: omission
Any place to which the public or a substantial group of the public has access. -
ANSWER: public place
A belief that would be held by an ordinary and prudent person in the same
circumstances as the actor. - ANSWER: reasonable belief
The commission of two or more offenses, regardless of whether the harm is directed
toward or inflicted upon more than one person or item of property. - ANSWER:
criminal episode
What are the 4 culpable mental states? - ANSWER: 1)intentional
2)knowing
3)reckless
4)criminal negligence
When it is a person's conscious objective or desire to engage in the conduct or cause
the result. - ANSWER: intentionally
When a person is aware of the nature of his conduct or that the circumstances exist,
and is aware that his/her conduct is reasonably certain to cause the result. -
ANSWER: knowingly
When a person is aware but consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable
risk that the circumstances exist or the result will occur. - ANSWER: recklessly
When a person ought to be aware of a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the
circumstances exist or the result will occur. - ANSWER: criminally negligent
Each part to an offense of a crime may be charged with commission of the offense. T
or F? - ANSWER: T
Which is not a defense to criminal responsibility?
1)insanity
2)mistake of fact
3)mistake of law
4)duress - ANSWER: mistake of law
A person who does an act amounting to more than mere preparation that tends but
fails to effect the commission of the offense intended. - ANSWER: criminal attempt
A person commits __ __ if with intent that felony be committed he agrees with one
or more persons that they or one or more of them engage in conduct that would
constitute the offense and one or more of them performs an over act in pursuance
of the agreement. - ANSWER: criminal conspiracy
What class offense consists of at least a $4,000 fine, at least 1 year in jail, or both
fine and jail. - ANSWER: Class A misdemeanor
What class offense consists of at least a $2,000 fine, at least 180 days in jail, or both
fine and jail. - ANSWER: Class B misdemeanor
What class offense consists of at least a $500 fine. - ANSWER: Class C misdemeanor
What class offense consists of death, life without parole, or a life sentence. -
ANSWER: Capital Felony
What offense consists of a life sentence, or 5-99 years in confinement, or
confinement and at least a $10,000 fine? - ANSWER: 1st Degree Felony
What offense consists of 2-20 years in confinement, or confinement and at least a
$10,000 fine? - ANSWER: 2nd Degree Felony
What offense consists of 2-10 years in confinement, or confinement and at least a
$10,000 fine? - ANSWER: 3rd Degree Felony
What offense consists of 180 days-2 years in confinement, or confinement and at
least a $10,000 fine? - ANSWER: State Jail Felony
Physical pain, illness, or any impairment of physical condition. - ANSWER: bodily
injury
A place designated by law for the confinement of a person arrested for, charged
with, or convicted of a criminal offense. - ANSWER: correctional facility
A firearm or anything manifestly designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of
inflicting death or serious bodily injury. - ANSWER: deadly weapon
Consent by a person legally authorized to act for the owner. - ANSWER: effective
consent
An offense so designated by law or punishable by death or confinement in a
penitentiary. - ANSWER: felony
A human being who is alive, including an unborn child at every stage of gestation
from fertilization until birth. - ANSWER: individual
An offense so designated by law or punishable by fine, by confinement in jail, or by
both fine and confinement in jail. - ANSWER: misdemeanor
, Failure to act. - ANSWER: omission
Any place to which the public or a substantial group of the public has access. -
ANSWER: public place
A belief that would be held by an ordinary and prudent person in the same
circumstances as the actor. - ANSWER: reasonable belief
The commission of two or more offenses, regardless of whether the harm is directed
toward or inflicted upon more than one person or item of property. - ANSWER:
criminal episode
What are the 4 culpable mental states? - ANSWER: 1)intentional
2)knowing
3)reckless
4)criminal negligence
When it is a person's conscious objective or desire to engage in the conduct or cause
the result. - ANSWER: intentionally
When a person is aware of the nature of his conduct or that the circumstances exist,
and is aware that his/her conduct is reasonably certain to cause the result. -
ANSWER: knowingly
When a person is aware but consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable
risk that the circumstances exist or the result will occur. - ANSWER: recklessly
When a person ought to be aware of a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the
circumstances exist or the result will occur. - ANSWER: criminally negligent
Each part to an offense of a crime may be charged with commission of the offense. T
or F? - ANSWER: T
Which is not a defense to criminal responsibility?
1)insanity
2)mistake of fact
3)mistake of law
4)duress - ANSWER: mistake of law
A person who does an act amounting to more than mere preparation that tends but
fails to effect the commission of the offense intended. - ANSWER: criminal attempt
A person commits __ __ if with intent that felony be committed he agrees with one
or more persons that they or one or more of them engage in conduct that would
constitute the offense and one or more of them performs an over act in pursuance
of the agreement. - ANSWER: criminal conspiracy
