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AB-2633 Crimes: capacity.(2015-2016)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.

 Section 26 of the Penal Code is amended to read:

26.
 All persons are capable of committing crimes except those belonging to the following classes:
One—Children (a)  Children  under the age 14 years  of 14, 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 (f)   (unless  Unless  the crime be is  punishable with death)  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.