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1. Call the sheriff, report trespassers, give them the pictures. We've caught trespassers several times and have them arrested every time. Now we are known as the people that have cameras all over their property and that we will prosecute. If you know one of the local store owners, go there with the pics and ask if they know the people.

this is by far the best thing to do

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2. If you shoot someone trespassing and your life wasn't in danger, you will go to jail for a nice long time. You will have to prove that your life was in imminent danger.

Not so in Texas, but if they are armed it will not be too hard to prove imminent danger.

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Posted by windriver

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Posted on 10/11/10 at 11:27 am to Bleeding purple

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Posted by TigerDeacon

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Posted on 10/11/10 at 11:31 am to Bleeding purple

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Not so in Texas, but if they are armed it will not be too hard to prove imminent danger.

I'm not sure the Texas statutes allow you to shoot someone for the crime of trespassing. I am not licensed in Texas, but my understanding that it is only for certain crimes where you can use deadly force to defense yourself and your property.

Quick internet search:

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Deadly Force in Defense of Person

"A person is justified in using deadly force against another if he would be justified in using force under Section 9.31 of the statute when and to the degree he reasonable believes that deadly force is immediately necessary to protect himself against the other's use or attempted use of unlawful deadly force, if a reasonable person in the same situation would have not retreated. The use of deadly force is also justified to prevent the other's imminent commission of aggravated kidnapping, murder, rape or robbery."

Defense of Another Person

"A person is justified in using deadly force against an attacker to protect another person if he would be justified to use it to protect himself against an unlawful attack and he reasonably believes his intervention is immediately necessary to protect the other person from serious injury or death."

Deadly Force to Protect Property

"A person is justified in using deadly force against another to protect his property to the degree he reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to prevent the other's imminent commission of arson, burglary, robbery, theft during the nighttime or criminal mischief during the nighttime, and he reasonably believes that the property cannot be protected by any other means."

"A person is justified in using deadly force against another to pervent the other who is fleeing after committing burglary, robbery, or theft during the nighttime, from escaping with the property and he reasonable believes that the property cannot be recovered by any other means; or, the use of force other than deadly force to protect or recover the property would expose him or another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury. (Nighttime is defined as the period 30 minutes after sunset until 30 minutes before sunrise.)"

Protection of the Property of Others

"A person is justified in using force or deadly force against another to protect the property of a third person if he reasonably believes he would be justified to use similar force to protect his own property, and he reasonably believes that there existed an attempt or actual commission of the crime of theft or criminal mischief."

"Also, a person is justified in using force or deadly force if he reasonably believes that the third person has requested his protection of property; or he has a legal duty to protect the property; or the third person whose property he is protecting is his spouse, parent or child."