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SECTION 120.35

Promoting a suicide attempt; when punishable as attempt to commit murder

Penal (PEN) CHAPTER 40, PART 3, TITLE H, ARTICLE 120

§ 120.35 Promoting a suicide attempt; when punishable as attempt to

commit murder.

A person who engages in conduct constituting both the offense of
promoting a suicide attempt and the offense of attempt to commit murder
may not be convicted of attempt to commit murder unless he causes or
aids the suicide attempt by the use of duress or deception.