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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Penal Code § 19.01: TYPES OF CRIMINAL HOMICIDE.

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  1. PENAL CODE
  2. TITLE 5. OFFENSES AGAINST THE PERSON
  3. CHAPTER 19. CRIMINAL HOMICIDE

(a) A person commits criminal homicide if he intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence causes the death of an individual.

(b) Criminal homicide is murder, capital murder, manslaughter, or criminally negligent homicide.

Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 1123, ch. 426, art. 2, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974; Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.

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