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Tex. Penal Code § 6.04 — Causation: conduct and results
Current through 89th Legislature, 2nd Called Session (2025)
Part of Chapter 6: CULPABILITY GENERALLY, Texas Penal Code.
Full text of Tex. Penal Code § 6.04
Statutory text current through the 89th Legislature, 2nd Called Session (2025). This publication reproduces the official statutory text; it is not the official statutes of the State of Texas.
(a) A person is criminally responsible if the result would not have occurred but for his conduct, operating either alone or concurrently with another cause, unless the concurrent cause was clearly sufficient to produce the result and the conduct of the actor clearly insufficient. (b) A person is nevertheless criminally responsible for causing a result if the only difference between what actually occurred and what he desired, contemplated, or risked is that: (1) a different offense was committed; or (2) a different person or property was injured, harmed, or otherwise affected.
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