speedsix wrote:Charles L. Cotton wrote:speedsix wrote:...does Texas have a law that if you're involved in a major crime and someone dies, you're charged with murder???
Yes, it's called "felony murder." If someone is killed during a felony and as a result of that felony, it "felony murder."
Chas.
...thanks...I looked in Chap 19 and I think that covers it...in La. a person who was in the store could even have a heart attack and you were charged with murder...or a partner in crime's death triggered the same thing...pretty tough law and pretty good one, too...
If I remember correctly, if you partner in crime is killed, even lets say by a policeman's bullet, you can be charged with murder.