Title 21 — Title 21 — Crimes and Punishments

A design to injure, disfigure, or disable, is inferred from the fact of inflicting an injury which is calculated to disfigure or disable, unless the circumstances raise a reasonable doubt whether such design existed. R.L.1910, § 2350.

A premeditated design to injure, disfigure or disable, sufficient to constitute maiming, may be formed instantly before inflicting the wound. R.L.1910, § 2351.

battery. Where it appears, upon a trial for maiming another person, that the person injured has, before the time of trial, so far recovered from the wound that he is no longer by it disfigured in personal appearance, or disabled in any member or organ of his body, or affected in …

Any person guilty of maiming another, as defined in Section 751 of this title, shall be guilty of a Class C2 felony offense punishable by imprisonment as provided for in subsections B through F of Section 20M of this title, or by a fine not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.…

A. Female genital mutilation shall be unlawful in the State of Oklahoma. Whoever knowingly circumcises, excises, or infibulates, in whole or in part, the labia majora, labia minora, or clitoris of another shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a Class A2 felony offense punishable b…

Libel is a false or malicious unprivileged publication by writing, printing, picture, or effigy or other fixed representation to the eye, which exposes any person to public hatred, contempt, ridicule or obloquy, or which tends to deprive him of public confidence, or to injure him…

A privileged publication is one made: First. In any legislative or judicial proceeding or any other proceeding authorized by law; Second. In the proper discharge of an official duty. Third. By a fair and true report of any legislative or judicial or other proceeding authorized by…

Every person who makes, composes or dictates such libel or procures the same to be done; or who willfully publishes or circulates such libel; or in any way knowingly or willfully aids or assists in making, publishing or circulating the same, shall be punishable by imprisonment in…

In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth thereof may be given in evidence to the jury, and if it be made to appear by the defendant that the matter charged as libelous was true, and in addition thereto was published with good motives, and for justifiable e…

To sustain the charge of publishing libel it is not needful that the words complained of should have been read by any person; it is enough and sufficient evidence that the accused knowingly parted with the immediate custody of the libel under circumstances which exposed it to be …

No editor or proprietor of any newspaper shall be liable to prosecution for a fair and true report of any judicial, legislative or other public official proceedings except upon proof of malice in making such report, and in making such report of public official proceedings, malice…

Any person who threatens to publish a libel concerning any other person, or concerning any relative, wife or child or dead relative of such person, or member of his family, shall be liable civilly and criminally to have the same intent as though the publication had been made. But…

21 O.S. § 779 Repealed by Laws 2017, c. 155, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2017

21 O.S. § 780 Repealed by Laws 2017, c. 155, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2017

Any person, who shall willfully, knowingly, or maliciously repeat or communicate to any person, or persons, a false rumor or report of a slanderous or harmful nature, or which may be detrimental to the character or standing of such other person, or persons, whether such person is…

Robbery is a wrongful taking of personal property in the possession of another, from his person or immediate presence, and against his will, accomplished by means of force or fear. R.L.1910, § 2364.

To constitute robbery, the force or fear must be employed either to obtain or retain possession of the property, or to prevent or overcome resistance to the taking. R.L.1910, § 2365. Amended by Laws 2025, c. 329, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2025.

When force is employed in either of the ways specified in the last section, the degree of force employed is immaterial. R.L.1910, § 2366.

The fear which constitutes robbery may be either: 1. The fear of an unlawful injury, immediate or future, to the person or property of the person robbed or of any relative of his, or member of his family; or, 2. The fear of an immediate and unlawful injury to the person or proper…

When property is taken under the circumstances, required to constitute robbery, the fact that the property was of trifling value does not qualify the offense. R.L.1910, § 2368.

The taking of property from the person of another is not robbery, when it clearly appears that the taking was fully completed without his knowledge. R.L.1910, § 2369.

Robbery in the first degree is when, in the course of committing the theft, the defendant: 1. Inflicts serious bodily injury upon the person; 2. Threatens a person with immediate serious bodily injury; 3. Intentionally puts a person in fear of immediate serious bodily injury; or …

Any person guilty of robbery in the first degree shall be guilty of a Class A2 felony offense punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not less than ten (10) years. R.L. 1910, § 2371. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 240, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. …

Any person guilty of robbery in the second degree shall be guilty of a Class B4 felony offense punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not exceeding ten (10) years. R.L. 1910, § 2372. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 241, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c.…

The punishments prescribed by this chapter can be inflicted only upon a legal conviction in a court having jurisdiction. R.L.1910, § 2090.

Whenever two or more persons conjointly commit a robbery or where the whole number of persons conjointly commits a robbery and persons present and aiding such robbery amount to two or more, each and either of such persons shall be guilty of a Class A2 felony offense punishable by…

imitation firearm a felony. Any person or persons who, with the use of any firearms or any other dangerous weapons, whether the firearm is loaded or not, or who uses a blank or imitation firearm capable of raising in the mind of the one threatened with such device a fear that it …

The various sections of this Chapter which declare that evidence obtained upon the examination of a person as a witness shall not be received against him in any criminal proceeding, do not forbid such evidence being proved against such person upon any proceedings founded upon a c…

Suicide is the intentional taking of one's own life. R.L.1910, §§ 2300.

Every person who willfully, in any manner, advises, encourages, abets, or assists another person in taking his own life, is guilty of aiding suicide, a Class B1 felony offense. R.L.1910, § 2302. Amended by Laws 2025, c. 486, § 44, eff. Jan. 1, 2026.

Every person who willfully furnishes another person with any deadly weapon or poisonous drug, knowing that such person intends to use such weapon or drug in taking his own life, is guilty of aiding suicide, a Class B1 felony offense, if such person thereafter employs such instrum…

Every person who willfully aids another in attempting to take his own life, in any manner which by the preceding sections would have amounted to aiding suicide if the person assisted had actually taken his own life, is, upon conviction, guilty of aiding an attempt at suicide, a C…

defense. It is no defense to a prosecution for aiding suicide or aiding an attempt at suicide, that the person who committed or attempted to commit the suicide was not a person deemed capable of committing crime. R.L.1910, § 2305.

Any person guilty of aiding suicide shall be guilty of a Class B1 felony offense punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for not less than seven (7) years. R.L. 1910, § 2306. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 244, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 148…

Every physician who being in the state of intoxication administers any poison, drug or medicine, or does any other act as such physician to another person, is guilty of a misdemeanor. R.L.1910, § 2390.

proprietary medicine. A. 1. No person shall willfully mingle any poison, Schedule I through V drug pursuant to the provisions of Sections 2-203 through 2-212 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or sharp object, or any other object or substance which if used in a manner which is…

disabled persons. Every overseer of the poor, constable, keeper of a jail, or other person who confines a person who is impaired by reason of intellectual or developmental disability, as defined by Section 1430.2 of Title 10 of the Oklahoma Statutes, mentally ill person, insane p…

Every person who, either solely or as a member of a court, in the execution of a judgment, order or process, knowingly recommits, imprisons or restrains of his liberty, for the same cause, any person who has been discharged from imprisonment upon a writ of deliverance, is guilty …

Every person having in his custody or power, or under his restraint, a party who by the provisions of law relating to habeas corpus, would be entitled to a writ of habeas corpus, or for whose relief such writ has been issued, who, with intent to elude the service of such writ, to…

Every person who knowingly assists in the violation of the preceding section is guilty of a misdemeanor. R.L.1910, § 2394.

Every person who, by use of force, threats or intimidation, prevents or endeavors to prevent any hired foreman, journeyman, apprentice, workman, laborer, servant or other person employed by another, from continuing or performing his work, or from accepting any new work or employm…

Every person who, by use of force, threats or intimidation, prevents or endeavors to prevent another from employing any person, or to compel another to employ any person, or to force or induce another to alter his or her mode of carrying on business, to interrupt or disrupt the c…

advertising without consent - Misdemeanor. Any person, firm or corporation that uses for the purpose of advertising for the sale of any goods, wares or merchandise, or for the solicitation of patronage by any business enterprise, the name, portrait or picture of any person, witho…

advertising without consent - Misdemeanor. Any person, firm, or corporation that uses for the purpose of advertising for the sale of any goods, wares, or merchandise, or for the solicitation of patronage by any business enterprise, the name, portrait, or picture of any service me…

Any person whose right of privacy, as created in Section 1 hereof, is violated or the surviving spouse, personal representatives or a majority of the adult heirs of a deceased person whose name, portrait, or picture is used in violation of Section 1 hereof, may maintain an action…

Other uses excepted. Nothing contained in this act shall be so construed as to prevent any person, firm or corporation, practicing the profession of photography, from exhibiting in or about his or its establishment specimens of the work of such establishment, unless the same is c…

21 O.S. § 841 Repealed by Laws 2006, c. 141, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2006

§ 12, emerg. eff. June 4, 2001.

21 O.S. § 842 Repealed by Laws 2006, c. 141, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2006

tattooing on child under 18 years—Definitions. A. It shall be unlawful for any person to perform or offer to perform body piercing or tattooing on a child under eighteen (18) years of age. No person under eighteen (18) years of age shall be allowed to receive a tattoo. No person …