CJS 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Actus Reus, Attendant Circumstance, Common Law Offence
8 Dec 2020
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Look again at the hypothetical driving-while-intoxicated statute immediately above. Break down the actus reus of the following modal penal code 210. 1 a person is guilty of criminal homicide if he purposely, knowingly, recklessly, or negligently causes the death of another human being. conduct - result - Do the same with the common law offence of burglary: breaking and entering a dwelling house of another at nighttime with the intent to commit a felony therein. The most common exception to the mens rea principle has been in cases involving what are characterized as public-welfare offenses. Strict liability has been permitted in a number of other instances as well: statutory rape, for instance. Strict liability is used in somewhat distinct circumstances. Some offenses, as defined, do not expressly possess any mental-state element, with public-welfare offenses being the most common example.
