2005 Nevada Revised Statutes - Chapter 194 — Persons Liable to Punishment for Crime

CHAPTER 194 - PERSONS LIABLE TO PUNISHMENTFOR CRIME

NRS 194.010 Personscapable of committing crimes.

NRS 194.020 Personsliable to punishment.

NRS 194.040 Jurisdictionof State over public offenses committed by or against Indians in areas ofIndian country.

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NRS 194.010 Personscapable of committing crimes. All persons areliable to punishment except those belonging to the following classes:

1. Children under the age of 8 years.

2. Children between the ages of 8 years and 14 years,in the absence of clear proof that at the time of committing the act chargedagainst them they knew its wrongfulness.

3. Persons who committed the act charged or made theomission charged in a state of insanity.

4. Persons who committed the act or made the omissioncharged under an ignorance or mistake of fact, which disproves any criminalintent, where a specific intent is required to constitute the offense.

5. Persons who committed the act charged without beingconscious thereof.

6. Persons who committed the act or made the omissioncharged, through misfortune or by accident, when it appears that there was noevil design, intention or culpable negligence.

7. Persons, unless the crime is punishable with death,who committed the act or made the omission charged under threats or menacessufficient to show that they had reasonable cause to believe, and did believe,their lives would be endangered if they refused, or that they would suffergreat bodily harm.

[1911 C&P 3; RL 6268; NCL 9952](NRS A1979, 145; 1981, 1660; 1995, 2467; 2001 Special Session,136; 2003, 1480)

NRS 194.020 Personsliable to punishment. The following persons,except as provided in NRS 194.010, areliable to punishment:

1. A person who commits in the State any crime, inwhole or in part.

2. A person who commits out of the State any actwhich, if committed within it, would be larceny, and is afterward found in theState with any of the stolen property.

3. A person who, being out of the State, counsels,causes, procures, aids or abets another to commit a crime in this State.

4. A person who, being out of the State, abducts orkidnaps, by force or fraud, any person, contrary to the laws of the place wherethe act is committed, and brings, sends or conveys such person into this State.

5. A person who commits an act without the State whichaffects persons or property within the State, or the public health, morals ordecency of the State, which, if committed within the State, would be a crime.

[1911 C&P 2; RL 6267; NCL 9951]

NRS 194.040 Jurisdictionof State over public offenses committed by or against Indians in areas ofIndian country. In accordance with theprovisions of NRS 41.430, jurisdictionover public offenses committed by or against Indians in the areas of Indiancountry in Nevada is assumed by the State of Nevada.

[Part 1:198:1955] + [Part 2:198:1955] + [Part3:198:1955]