 | Austin Abbott - 1902 - 850 sider
...also knew that his second marriage was forbidden by law. When, therefore, he married the second time, he is presumed to have intended to break the law....constitute the crime was knowingly done, and the crime waa therefore knowingly committed. Ignorance of a fact may sometimes be taken as evidence of a want... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1904 - 688 sider
...also knew that his second marriage was forbidden by law. When, therefore, he married the second time, he is presumed to have intended to break the law....of criminal intent, but not ignorance of the law. The only defence of the accused in this case is his belief that the law ought not to have been enacted.... | |
 | John Romain Rood - 1906 - 648 sider
...also knew that his second marriage was forbidden by law. When therefore he married the second time, he is presumed to have intended to break the law....of criminal intent, but not ignorance of the law. The only defense of the accused in this case is his belief that the law ought not to have been enacted.... | |
 | James Parker Hall, James De Witt Andrews - 1910 - 460 sider
...also knew that his second marriage was forbidden by law. When, therefore he married a second time, he is presumed to have intended to break the law....crime was therefore knowingly committed. Ignorance of fact may sometimes be taken as evidence of want of criminal intent, but not ignorance of the law. The... | |
 | 1911 - 1162 sider
...the case of Reynolds v. United States, supra, the court, discussing this feature of that case, says : "The breaking of the law is the crime. Every act necessary...of criminal intent, but not ignorance of the law. The only defense of the accused in this case is his belief that the law ought not to have been enacted.... | |
 | Joseph Henry Beale - 1915 - 1076 sider
...to rnngtitiitn ~ the crimr Trni itlBinTirr-ly done, and the crime was therefore knowingly Jgnorance of a fact may sometimes be taken as evidence of a...of criminal intent, but not ignorance of the law. The only defence of the accused in this case is his belief that the law ought not to have been enacted.... | |
 | Joseph Henry Beale - 1915 - 1034 sider
...corrupt ; but he is not therefore to escape from the consequences of it." Bump. Fr. Conv. (3d ed.) 25. " Ignorance of a fact may sometimes be taken as evidence of a want of criminal intent, bat not ignorance of the law" (Reynolds v. United States, 98 US 145) ; and "in no case can one enter... | |
 | William Alexander Linn - 1902 - 692 sider
...also knew that his second marriage was forbidden by law. When, therefore, he married the second time, he is presumed to have intended to break the law,...knowingly done, and the crime was therefore knowingly committed.1 PT Van Zile of Michigan, who became district attorney of the territory in 1878, tried John... | |
 | Francis Bowes Sayre - 1927 - 1192 sider
...also knew that his second -marriage was forbidden by law. When, therefore, he married the second time, he is presumed to have intended to break the law....of criminal intent, but not ignorance of the law. The only defence of the accused in this case is his belief that the law ought not to have been enacted.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1885 - 1142 sider
...every man Is presumed to Intend the necessary and legitimate consequences of what he knowingly does. Ignorance of a fact may sometimes be taken as evidence of a want ot criminal Intent, but not Ignorance of the law. 11. It was not error in the court, in its charge... | |
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And the breaking of the law is the crime. Every act necessary to constitute the crime was knowingly done, and the crime was therefore knowingly committed. Ignorance of a fact may sometimes be taken as evidence of a want of criminal intent, but not ignorance... 
