STATE v. HATCH


122 N.J. Super. 538 (1973)

301 A.2d 160

STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. LEONARD E. HATCH, DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided February 23, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John J. DeCicco, Deputy Attorney General, argued the cause for appellant (Mr. Fred H. Kumpf, Deputy Attorney General, of counsel and on the brief; Mr. George F. Kugler, Jr., Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney).

Mr. Carl R. Lobel, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, argued the cause for respondent (Mr. Stanley C. Van Ness, Public Defender, attorney).

Before Judges FRITZ, LYNCH and ACKERMAN.


PER CURIAM.

We affirm, essentially for the reasons expressed by Judge Leahy below. 118 N.J.Super. 96 (Cty. Ct. 1972).

Without diminishing the vitality of the truism that each individual is expected to know the law, we are satisfied that conviction for a crime of this nature without an attendant showing of knowledge, actual or constructive, of the precise proscription...

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