(DOWNLOAD) "State V. Torres" by Hawaii Supreme Court # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State V. Torres
- Author : Hawaii Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 08, 1983
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 52 KB
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"The contention that an injury can amount to a crime only when inflicted by intention is no provincial or transient notion," Morissette v. United States, 342 U.S. 246, 250 (1952); for the requirement of a culpable state of mind is deeply rooted*fn2 and remains "the rule of, rather than the exception to, the principles of Anglo-American criminal jurisprudence." Dennis v. United States, 341 U.S. 494, 500 (1951). The notion is iterated in the Hawaii Penal Code, as HRS § 702-204 provides: