Transportation Code
A person commits an offense if the person operates a passenger vehicle that is equipped with safety belts; and allows a child who is younger than ___ years of age to ride in the vehicle without requiring the child to be secured by a safety belt.
17. TC: 545.413
A person commits an offense if, in the course of committing theft and with intent to obtain or maintain control of the property, he intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causes bodily injury to another.
What is Robbery. 29.02
A person commits an offense if, without the effective consent of the owner, he intentionally or knowingly damages or destroys the tangible property of the owner.
What is Criminal Mischief 28.03
True or False: Ofc. Buckwheat stops a car and tells Joe he is under arrest. When he does this, Joe’s mother committed the Offense of Interference with Public Duties when she starts cursing and yelling at Ofc. Buckwheat telling him to not to take Mike to jail.
False. PC: 38.15 (d) Speech Only.
Joe is a spoiled brat and mad at his parents. He goes to his vehicle, retrieves his firearm, and then discharges the firearm in the air. What offense, if any, has been committed?
Disorderly Conduct. PC: 42.01
A person commits an offense if the person operates an open-bed pickup truck or an open flatbed truck or draws an open flatbed trailer when a child younger than ___ years of age is occupying the bed of the truck or trailer.
18. TC:545.414
A person commits the offense of terroristic threat if he threatens to commit any offense involving violence to any person or property with intent to place any person in fear of imminent bodily injury.
False; PC: 22.07(a)(2) "Imminent Serious Bodily Injury"
Joe decides to drive his moms’ car which is a stick shift, and he doesn’t know how to drive it. He recklessly damages the neighbor’s mailbox. What is the offense?
Reckless Damage or Destruction. PC: 28.04
True or False: Ofc. Buckwheat arrests a subject and takes him to jail. When they arrive, Ofc. Buckwheat asks the defendant if he has anything illegal on his person. The defendant says no. After entering the jail, the jail staff finds a crack pipe on the defendant which resulted in the defendant committing the offense of Prohibited Substances and Items in Correctional Facility.
False. 38.11(d)(1) "A person commits an offense if the person possesses an alcoholic beverage, controlled substance, or dangerous drug while in a correctional facility or civil commitment facility or on property owned, used, or controlled by a correctional facility or civil commitment facility."
A riot means the assemblage of ____ or more persons resulting in conduct which; creates an immediate danger of damage to property or injury to persons.
Seven. PC: 42.02(a)
If a subject is arrested for Public Intoxication and that subject has been before convicted under this section ___ times, and each prior offense was committed in the ___ months preceding the date of commission of the instant offense, the offense is a class B misdemeanor.
Three times; 24 months. PC:12.43
A person is a party and is showing his pistol to his friends and recklessly fires a round at the direction of a crowd of people and placing them in imminent danger of serious bodily injury. What is the offense?
Deadly Conduct. PC: 22.05. Third Degree Felony
Joe gets an Aerosol paint can and goes and sprays his initials on the side of a wall of a community center that provides education programs to kids and the damage to property is $800.00. What is the penalty group?
State Jail Felony. 28.08(d)(1)(2)
What is the penalty group if the person takes an alcoholic beverage, controlled substance, or dangerous drug into a correctional facility?
Third Degree Felony. PC: 38.11(g)
While Debbie and Sarah were walking on an icy sidewalk, Sarah falls and severely injured her head. As Sarah attempted to use her phone to call 911 for emergency assistance, Debbie took her phone and stomped on it. What offense, if any, was committed?
Interference with Emergency Request for Assistance. 42.062
A person commits an offense if the person operates a passenger vehicle, transports a child who is younger than ____ years of age, unless the child is taller than ____ feet, ____ inches.
Eight years of age; four feet, nine inches. TC: 545.412
Joe gets mad that he cannot pay his bills and goes to the local Wal-Mart. He reaches over the counter, grabs $500.00, and starts to run off. As he is running away, he knocks over a disabled man in a wheelchair who receives bodily injury from his head hitting the ground. What is the offense?
Agg Robbery. PC: 29.03
What Offense is committed if a person throws a rock at a train that is passing by?
Interference with Railroad Property. 28.07(b)(1) "A person commits an offense if the person throws an object or discharges a firearm or weapon at a train or rail-mounted work equipment." Class B Misdemeanor.
A person commits an offense if he intentionally prevents or obstructs a person he knows is a peace officer from effecting an _______, _______, or _______ of the actor or another by using force against the peace officer or another.
Arrest, Search, or Transportation. 38.03
Larry resides in Whoville, population 123,456. Larry recently purchased a new Glock Z1000. He goes into his backyard with the handgun to test its accuracy and pops off three rounds into the side of his shed. What offense, if any, was committed?
Discharge of Firearm in Certain Municipalities. 42.12
A truck, truck-tractor, or semitrailer that has at least four tires or at least two super single tires on the rearmost axle of the vehicle shall be equipped with safety guards or flaps located and suspended behind the rearmost wheels of the vehicle within ____ inches of the surface of the highway.
Eight inches. TC: 547.606
If a person leaves a child younger than _____ years of age inside a motor vehicle for longer than _____ minutes without a person who is 14 years of age or older commits the offense of Leaving a Child in a vehicle.
7 years of age; 5 min. PC: 22.10
Joe goes to the local water tower and without the effective consent of the owner, he turns the valve off that controls the water pressure and caused in whole or in part impairment or interruption of the water supply to the residences of Denton to not have any water. What offense, if any, was committed?
Criminal Mischief. 28.03. Class A Misdemeanor
A person commits an offense if the person intentionally or knowingly and with force attempts to take from a peace officer their personal protection chemical dispensing device. What is the offense & penalty group?
Taking or Attempting to Take Weapon from Peace Officer; State Jail Felony. 38.14(b)(e)(2)
A person commits an offense if, without legal privilege or authority, he intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly disobeys a reasonable request or order to move issued by a person the actor knows to be a fireman to prevent obstruction of an elevator. What offense, if any, was committed?
Obstructing Highway or Other Passageway. 42.03.
"A person commits an offense if he obstructs a highway, street, sidewalk, railway, waterway, elevator, aisle, hallway, entrance, or exit to which the public has access,
or
disobeys a reasonable request or order to move issued by a person the actor knows to be or is informed is a peace officer, a fireman, or a person with authority to control the use of the premises."