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There are actually "Three" elements of a crime (Known as Corpus Delicti "Body of the crime"), from Blacks Law Dictionary (and court decisions): "Wigmore explains the American concept of the Corpus Delicti rule thus: [Every crime] reveals three component parts, First, the occurrence of the specific kind of injury or loss (as in homicide, a person deceased; in arson, a house burnt, in larceny, property missing); Secondly, somebody's criminality (in contrast e.g., to accident) as the source of the loss, - these two together involving the commission of a crime by somebody; and thirdly, the accused identity as the doer of this crime" (Salazar VS State of Texas, 2002 quoting Wigmore Evidence 2072) Some jurisdictions add another element to this test as: "a law, either common or statute, that prevents the act."

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