Summary
If one committed manslaughter with a bowie knife or dagger, they shall be punished for murder.
Statutory Text
ART. 610. If any person be killed with a bowie knife or dagger, under circumstances which woud otherwise render the homicide a case of manslaughter, the killing shall nevertheless be deemed murder, and punished accordingly.
ART. 611. A “bowie knife” or “dagger,” as the terms are here and elsewhere used, means any knife intended to be worn upon the person which is capable of inflicting death, and not commonly known as a pocket knife.
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Title
1856 — Texas — Manslaughter Sentence Enhancement
Conduct
Use
Instrument
Edged Weapons
Jurisdiction
TX
Date
1856