LOUISIANA REVISED STATUTES
TITLE 14. CRIMINAL LAW
CHAPTER 1. CRIMINAL CODE
PART I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
SUBPART B. ELEMENTS OF CRIMES
§ 10. Criminal intent
Criminal intent may be specific or general:
(1) Specific criminal intent is that state of mind which exists
when the circumstances indicate that the offender actively desired the
prescribed criminal consequences to follow his act or failure to act.
(2) General criminal intent is present whenever there is specific
intent, and also when the circumstances indicate that the offender, in
the ordinary course of human experience, must have adverted to the prescribed
criminal consequences as reasonably certain to result from his act or failure
to act.
§ 11. Criminal intent; how expressed
The definitions of some crimes require a specific criminal intent,
while in others no intent is required. Some crimes consist merely
of criminal negligence that produces criminal consequences. However,
in the absence of qualifying provisions, the terms "intent" and "intentional"
have reference to "general criminal intent."
§ 12. Criminal negligence
Criminal negligence exists when, although neither specific nor
general criminal intent is present, there is such disregard of the interest
of others that the offender's conduct amounts to a gross deviation below
the standard of care expected to be maintained by a reasonably careful
man under like circumstances.