194.010 - Persons capable of committing crimes. - Nevada Statutes

194.010  Persons capable of committing crimes.  All persons are liable to punishment except those belonging to the following classes:

      1.  Children under the age of 8 years.

      2.  Children between the ages of 8 years and 14 years, in the absence of clear proof that at the time of committing the act charged against them they knew its wrongfulness.

      3.  Persons who committed the act charged or made the omission charged in a state of insanity.

      4.  Persons who committed the act or made the omission charged under an ignorance or mistake of fact, which disproves any criminal intent, where a specific intent is required to constitute the offense.

      5.  Persons who committed the act charged without being conscious thereof.

      6.  Persons who committed the act or made the omission charged, through misfortune or by accident, when it appears that there was no evil design, intention or culpable negligence.

      7.  Persons, unless the crime is 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 believe, and did believe, their lives would be endangered if they refused, or that they would suffer great bodily harm.

      [1911 C&P § 3; RL § 6268; NCL § 9952]—(NRS A 1979, 145; 1981, 1660; 1995, 2467; 2001 Special Session, 136; 2003, 1480)