TEXAS PENAL CODE EXAM LATEST 2024 ACTUAL EXAM 300
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS |ALREADY
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What crime, if any, is committed when a person cause the telephone of another to repeatedly
ring, makes repeated phone calls, or makes repeated phone calls, or makes a telephone call and
intentionally fails to hang up or disengage the connection?
a. No offense-this is a matter to be handled by the phone company
b. Disorderly conduct
c. Harassment
d. False alarm or report
e. Stalking - ANSWER----Harassment Sec. 42.062
A man restricts his wife's movements without her consent by confining her in their bedroom;
after a day passes he lets her go free. What crime, if any, did the man commit?
a. Kidnapping
b. Unlawful restraint
c. Domestic violence
d. No offense because they are married - ANSWER----Unlawful restraint Sec. 20.02
A person retains a child younger than 18, knowing this violates the express terms of a judgment.
According to the Penal Code, what offense has been committed?
a. Interference with child custody
b. Harboring runaway child
c. Agreement to abduct from custody
d. Enticing a child - ANSWER----Interference with child custody Sec. 25.03
A person assaults a peace officer because the officer filed charges against the individual. The
person has committed
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a. assault
b. criminal mischief
c. retaliation
d. aggravated assault
e. no offense if the charges are found to be unfounded - ANSWER----aggravated assault
Sec. 22.02
Suspect A enters a convenience store, puts his hand in his pocket and points a gun at the clerk
through his jacket while demanding "all the money in the cash register." Although the clerk did
not see the gun, she heard Suspect A pull back the weapon's hammer. The clerk puts the money
into a sack and hands it to Suspect A, who runs out of the store. Suspect A is caught and charged
with
a. burglary
b. robbery
c. aggravated robbery
d. deadly assault - ANSWER----robbery Sec. 29.02
Which of the following is not a type of weapon that is defined in the statute governing
Unlawfully Carrying a Weapon (UCW)?
a. Handgun
b. Shotgun
c. Poniard
d. Spear - ANSWER----Shotgun Sec. 46.02
A means 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 if (a) the offenses are
committed pursuant to the same transaction or pursuant to two or more transactions that are
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connected or constitute a common scheme or plan, or (b) the offenses are the repeated
commission of the same or similar offenses (3.01).
a. severance
b. criminal episode
c. combination
d. riot
e. conspiracy - ANSWER----criminal episode Sec. 3.01
A person is asked to leave property that he does not have the right to occupy. The person refuses
after receiving notice that his presence is no longer legal. He committed
a. burglary
b. criminal trespass
c. disorderly conduct
d. violation of verbal order - ANSWER----criminal trespass Sec. 30.05
A man with a knife is standing 75 feet away from another man that is getting into a vehicle. The
man with the knife is screaming that he is going to kill the other.
The driver gets into his vehicle, drives over to the man with the knife, and shoots the man with
the knife; the victim of the shooting dies. What offense, in any, was committed?
a. None-this was self-defense
b. Murder
c. Manslaughter
d. Criminally negligent homicide
e. Vehicular manslaughter - ANSWER----Murder Sec. 19.02
A person intentionally damages property of another without effective consent. The person
committed
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a. disorderly conduct
b. criminal mischief
c. reckless conduct
d. delinquent behavior - ANSWER----criminal mischief Sec. 28.03
A person is in possession of a burning tobacco product in an elevator. According to the Penal
Code, what offense has been committed?
a. No offense
b. Smoking tobacco
c. Disorderly conduct
d. Criminal mischief - ANSWER----Smoking tobacco Sec. 48.01
One of objective of the Penal code is to
a. adopt measures for preventing the commission of a crime
b. define the scope of law enforcement actions in enforcing laws and to synthesize the
exercise of state criminal jurisdiction
c. exclude the offender from all hope of escape
d. ensure a trial with as little delay as possible consistent with justice
e. ensure certain execution of the sentence of law when declared - ANSWER---- define the
scope of law enforcement actions in enforcing laws and to synthesize the exercise
Sec. 1.02
An affirmative defense to prosecution
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