Oklahoma § 21-152 - Persons capable of committing crimes - Exceptions Children – Intellectual disability - Ignorance - Commission without

§ 21-152. Persons capable of committing crimes - Exceptions Children – Intellectual disability - Ignorance - Commission without

consciousness - Involuntary subjection.

All persons are capable of committing crimes, except those

belonging to the following classes:

1. Children under the age of seven (7) years;

2. Children over the age of seven (7) years, but under the age

of fourteen (14) years, in the absence of proof that at the time of

committing the act or neglect charged against them, they knew its

wrongfulness;

3. Persons who are impaired by reason of an intellectual

disability upon proof that at the time of committing the act charged

against them they were incapable of knowing its wrongfulness;

4. Mentally ill persons, and all persons of unsound mind,

including persons temporarily or partially deprived of reason, upon

proof that at the time of committing the act charged against them

they were incapable of knowing its wrongfulness;

5. Persons who committed the act, or made the omission charged,

under an ignorance or mistake of fact which disproves any criminal

intent. But ignorance of the law does not excuse from punishment

for its violation;

6. Persons who committed the act charged without being

conscious thereof; and

7. Persons who committed the act, or make the omission charged,

while under involuntary subjection to the power of superiors.

R.L. 1910, § 2094. Amended by Laws 1998, c. 246, § 11, eff. Nov. 1,

1998; Laws 2019, c. 475, § 16, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.