179 A.2d 837 | Conn. Super. Ct. | 1962
The alleged violation of §
Several assignments of error are based on claims of facts erroneously found and on the court's failure to find certain facts. The changes sought would not directly affect the ultimate facts upon which the judgment depends. As no useful purpose would therefore be served by making these corrections, *200
they are not made. Whippoorwill Crest Co. v. Stratford,
Defendant argues that his conduct did not constitute a violation of §
In his brief, defendant quotes the trial court as having stated that his conduct was the result of "an honest mistake," and that this thus showed an absence of criminal intent, which intent he says is essential to a finding of guilty. "Whether `knowingly' is or is not to be implied in the definition of a statutory crime, where it is not expressed, must be determined from the general scope of the Act, and from the nature of the evils to be avoided." State v.Gaetano,
There is no error.
In this opinion DiCENZO and O'CONNOR, Js., concurred.