Supreme Court of Iowa· 4/23/1997

State v. Kidd

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562 N.W.2d 764
1997 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 146
1997 WL 195061

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holding use of “an” is unambiguous in context of crime of possession of “an” offensive weapon
noting that absent a legal definition, we use a dictionary as a “ready source for ascertaining the common and ordinary meaning of a word”
holding the fundamental goal of statutory construction is to ascertain the legislature’s intent and construe statutes in such a way as to give effect to that intent
concluding the statute prohibiting the possession of “an offensive weapon” referred to the possession of a single weapon and thus possession of each weapon is a separate offense
stating the word \an” as used in a criminal statute prohibiting unauthorized possession of \an offensive weapon” denotes a singular unit of prosecution
stating the word “an” as used in a criminal statute prohibiting unauthorized possession of “an offensive weapon” denotes a singular unit of prosecution

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Judges: Harris, Carter, Snell, Andreasen, Ternus

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