AB 2633: Crimes: capacity.
- Session Year: 2015-2016
- House: Assembly
- Latest Version Date: 2016-02-19
Existing law provides that all persons are capable of committing crimes except those belonging to specified classes, including, among others, persons who are mentally incapacitated or who committed the act charged without being conscious thereof.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
All persons are capable of committing crimes except those belonging to the following classes:
One Children
(a)Children under the age of 14, 14 years of age, in the absence of clear proof that at the time of committing the act charged against them, they knew its wrongfulness.
Two Persons
(b)Persons who are mentally incapacitated.
Three Persons
(c)Persons who committed the act or made the omission charged under an ignorance or mistake of fact, which disproves any criminal intent.
Four Persons
(d)Persons who committed the act charged without being conscious thereof.
Five Persons
(e)Persons who committed the act or made the omission charged through misfortune or by accident, when it appears that there was no evil design, intention, or culpable negligence.
Six Persons (unless the crime be punishable with death) who
(f)Unless the crime is punishable with death, persons who committed the act or made the omission charged under threats or menaces sufficient to show that they had reasonable cause to and did believe their lives would be endangered if they refused.
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| Feb 19, 2016 | Introduced. To print. |
| Feb 21, 2016 | From printer. May be heard in committee March 22. |
| Feb 22, 2016 | Read first time. |
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