AIDING SUICIDE
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Washington v. Glucksberg (1997)
Most recently applied in 522 F. Supp. 2d 766 - In Re Extradition of Exoo (October 2007)
Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff
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.
(a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to promote or assist the commission of suicide by another, he aids or attempts to aid the other to commit or attempt to commit suicide.
(b) An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor unless the actor's conduct causes suicide or attempted suicide that results in serious bodily injury, in which event the offense is a state jail felony.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.