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· 10/21/1981

Eggman v. Scurr

Citations

  • 311 N.W.2d 77
  • 1981 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 1057

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “Revised criminal code offenses are to be construed as altering prior law only if a legislative intent to change the prior law is clear.”
  • \Revised criminal code offenses are to be construed as altering prior law only if a legislative intent to change the prior law is clear.\
  • “[A] basic premise of criminal liability, expressed in the maxim actus not facit reum nisi mens sit rea, is that an act alone does not make one guilty unless his mind is also guilty.”

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Judges: Allbee, McCORMICK, McGIVERIN, McGiverin, Reynoldson, Uhlenhopp

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