Q: Is there a such thing as a felony other and what is it?
Is there a such thing as a "felony other" charge and what is it? My friend said he has a charge of a felony other.
A: The Texas Penal Code has no definition for a “felony other.” Possibly, your friend was charged with a State Jail felony (the lowest felony that exists under Texas state law), and the County where you friend is charged has adopted that term in its nomenclature to distinguish it from an Aggravated felony (which defense lawyers sometimes refer to as a “3g” offense)
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Texas has about 2500 possible felonies and many of them are not in the Penal Code and almost never charged. Did you know that there are 11 felonies a person can commit with an oyster?!?
1. theft of oysters placed on a private seabed
2. interfering with an oyster buoy or marker with two previous convictions (your first 2 are misdemeanors)
3. oystering in a restricted area as designated by the state
4. night dredging of oysters
5. night dredging in a restricted area with a previous conviction
6. night dredging in a polluted area
7. oystering without a license
8. harvesting oysters for non-commercial purposes without a license
9. harvesting oysters without a commercial license
10 selling sport oysters
11 violating oyster regulations
I'm guessing the makers of the court software don't bother to keep up with every possibility so they created this FELONY OTHER category as a "catch-all" label and you are seeing the output of that software. The parole board posted a list of felonies online here: http://www.paroletexas.com/articles/NCICcodes.pdf
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