</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Damadman, No you can't shoot trespassers in Texas after sunset. You must be thinking of this from the Texas Penal Code, Chapter 9 section 9.42, and then you will still have to appear before the Grand Jury and they will decide weather or not to indite you for murder.
§ 9.42. DEADLY FORCE TO PROTECT PROPERTY. A person is
justified in using deadly force against another to protect land or
tangible, movable property:
(1) if he would be justified in using force against the
other under Section 9.41; and
(2) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the
deadly force is immediately necessary:
(A) to prevent the other's imminent commission of
arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the
nighttime [0], or criminal mischief during the nighttime [0]; or
(B) to prevent the other who is fleeing
immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated
robbery, or theft during the nighttime [0] from escaping with the
property; and
(3) he reasonably believes that:
(A) the land or property cannot be protected or
recovered by any other means; or
(B) the use of force other than deadly force to
protect or recover the land or property would expose the actor or
another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury.
Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974.
Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, § 1.01, eff. Sept. 1,
1994.
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Well that is a helluva lot better than Maryland. If you shot someone to stop them from fleeing after a roberry in Maryland you would just be tried, convicted and proverbially hung within a matter of hours.
I still like Texas's way a lot better than MAryland's way of thinking. That's one reason I am getting the heck out of Maryland soon.
