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Ark. Code Ann. § 5-2-201

Definitions generally

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case United States v. Scott (2021)

Most recently applied in United States v. Scott (March 2021)

Acts 1975, No. 280, § 201; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-201.

How often courts cite this section

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

As used in the Arkansas Criminal Code:

(1) “Act” means a bodily movement and includes speech and the conscious possession or control of property;

(2) “Act” as a verb means either to perform an act or to omit to perform an act;

(3) “Conduct” means an act or omission and its accompanying mental state; and

(4) “Omission” means a failure to perform an act and the performance of the act is required by law.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.