Tex. Pen. Code § 9.22 : PENAL CODE — GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY — JUSTIFICATION EXCLUDING CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY — JUSTIFICATION GENERALLY — Necessity

Conduct is justified if:

(1) the actor reasonably believes the conduct is immediately necessary to avoid imminent harm;

(2) the desirability and urgency of avoiding the harm clearly outweigh, according to ordinary standards of reasonableness, the harm sought to be prevented by the law proscribing the conduct; and

(3) a legislative purpose to exclude the justification claimed for the conduct does not otherwise plainly appear.

Tex. Pen. Code § 9.22

Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. 9/1/1994.