The Laws of Texas, 1929-1931 [Volume 27] Page: 457 of 1,943
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FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE-REGULAR SESSION. 11
has married outside of the State of Texas creates an emergency
and an imperative public necessity, requiring that the Constitutional
Rule, providing that bills be read on three separate days
be suspended, and the same is hereby suspended, and it is so
enacted.
Approved February 13, 1931.
Effective February 13, 1931.
[NOTE: H. B. No. 41 passed the House by a vote of 116 yeas,
0 nays; House concurred in Senate amendments by a vote of 112
yeas, 1 nay; passed by the Senate with amendments by a vote of
31 yeas, 0 nays.]
MAKING EXTORTION OF MONEY BY BODILY DAMAGE A
FELONY AND PRESCRIBING PENALTY THEREFOR.
H. B. No. 180.] CHAPTER 10.
An Act making it a felony to threaten to take the life of any human
being or to inflict serious bodily injury or to burn, injure or destroy
any property of any person in order to extort money or anything of
value from the person threatened; providing for the penalty therefor;
and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. Whoever shall threaten to take the life of any
human being or to inflict upon any human being any serious
bodily injury, or to burn, injure or destroy any property of any
person for the purpose or with the view of extorting money or
anything of value from the person threatened shall be guilty of
a felony. One guilty of the above offense shall be confined in the
State Penitentiary not less than five nor more than twenty-five
years.
SEC. 2. The fact that under our present laws the above offense
is not sufficiently covered by law and the necessity of protecting
any citizen from such threats to extort money, creates an emergency
and an imperative public necessity that the Constitutional
Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended,
and the same is hereby suspended, and this Act shall
take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is
so enacted.
Approved February 26, 1931.
Effective February 26, 1931.
[NOTE: H. B. No. 180 passed the House by a vote of 110 yeas,
4 nays, 1 present and not voting; passed the Senate by a vote of
30 yeas, 0 nays.]
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1929-1931 [Volume 27], book, 1931; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16362/m1/457/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .