Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 4/27/1983

Lugo-Lugo v. State

Citations

650 S.W.2d 72
1983 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1004

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explaining that, when “circumstances surrounding conduct could make an otherwise benign act dangerous . . . an additional culpable mental state as to that ‘conduct element’ would be required”
explaining that intentional murder under Sections 19.02(a)(1) is “result” based murder offense that focuses on defendant’s intent to cause death rather than only intending action that caused death
offense of unauthorized use of motor vehicle encompasses two conduct elements to which mental state applies
murder is \committed when the conscious objective or desire of the perpetrator was to cause death or where the perpetrator was aware that his conduct was reasonably certain to cause death\
the act intending to cause serious bodily injury must be “objectively clearly dangerous to human life”
“We also note that murder under Section 19.02(b)(2) . . . is a ‘result’ type of a crime.”

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Judges: Campbell, Clinton, Odom, Teague, Miller

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