Cabo Verde

Código Penal de Cabo Verde

Cape Verde Legislative Decree 4/2003 of 18 November 2003 - PENAL CODE

VOLUME I - GENERAL PROVISIONS

TITLE II - PUNISHABLE DEEDS

CHAPTER I - DEFINING CRITERIA OF PUNISHMENT

Article 13
(Wrongful intent)

1. Anyone who carries out a deed that corresponds to the description of a standard type of crime and does so with the intention of carrying it out shall be deemed to be acting with wrongful intent.

2. Anyone who carries out a deed that corresponds to the description of a standard type of crime, such deed being a necessary consequence of his actions, shall be deemed to be acting with wrongful intent.

3. When a deed that corresponds to the description of a standard type of crime is carried out as a possible consequence of the perpetrator's actions, wrongful intent shall be deemed to exist if the perpetrator's actions were consistent with the carrying out of that deed.

Keywords

Mental element
Intent - national proceedings



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