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Willful

Ballentine's Law Dictionary · James A. Ballentine · 1916

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

Ordinarily means intentional as distinguished from accidental or involuntary, but in penal statutes it means with evil intent or legal malice, or without reasonable ground to believe the act lawful.

See 55 Tex. Cr. 164, 131 Am. St. Rep. 809, 115 S. W. 597.