Legal Question in Criminal Law in Texas

Telephone harrassment

What constitutes harrassment ot assault when a person repeatedly telephones another person and leaves vulgar and/or threatening messages? To quantify - 60 calls in 36 hours during all hours of the day and night.


Asked on 12/26/00, 1:01 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Charles Aspinwall Charles S. Aspinwall, J.D., LLC

Re: Telephone harrassment

If the calls are uninvited and unappreciated, and done with malice by the caller, the requisites for telephone harrassment would seem to be present without doubt.

That the calls were made could be difficult to prove.

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Answered on 12/29/00, 9:54 am


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