US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  18
                            CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
                                  CHAPTER 2
                          PERSONS LIABLE, PRINCIPALS
                               AND ACCESSORIES
    18-201.  PERSONS CAPABLE OF COMMITTING CRIMES. All persons are capable of
committing crimes, except those belonging to the following classes:
    1.  Persons who committed the act or made the omission charged, under an
ignorance or mistake of fact which disproves any criminal intent.
    2.  Persons who committed the act charged without being conscious thereof.
    3.  Persons who committed the act or made the omission charged, through
misfortune or by accident, when it appears that there was not evil design,
intention or culpable negligence.
    4.  Persons (unless the crime be punishable with death) who committed the
act or made the omission charged, under threats or menaces sufficient to show
that they had reasonable cause to and did believe their lives would be
endangered if they refused.