Supreme Court of Vermont· 11/1/1983

State v. Kerr

Citations

470 A.2d 670
143 Vt. 597
1983 Vt. LEXIS 574

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concluding that statute prohibiting carrying dangerous or deadly weapon while committing felony does not require proof that defendant has knowingly carried deadly weapon
concluding that statute prohibiting carrying dangerous or deadly weapon while committing felony does not require proof that defendant has knowingly carried deadly weapon
concluding that circumstantial evidence \constitute[ed] sufficient evidence of guilty knowledge to sustain the verdict\
explaining that this Court will not read language into statute unless necessary to make it effective
noting statute must “be enforced as the legislature enacted it, according to its terms”
declining to read mental state requirement into 13 V.S.A. § 4005, which prohibits carrying weapon while committing felony, where one was “simply not a part of the statute”

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Judges: Billings, Hill, Underwood, Peck, Gibson

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