Ethiopia

The Criminal Code of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

PART I

GENERAL PART

BOOK I

CRIMES AND CRIMINALS

TITLE III

CONDITIONS OF LIABILITY TO PUNISHMENT IN RESPECT OF CRIMES

CHAPTER II

CRIMINAL GUILT

Sub-section 1.- Guilt in Case of a Simple Crime

Article 58.- Criminal Intention.

(1) A person is deemed to have committed a crime intentionally where:
(a) he performs an unlawful and punishable act with full knowledge and intent in order to achieve a given result; or
(b) he being aware, that his act may cause illegal and punishable consequences, commits the act regardless that such consequences may follow.

(2) An intentional crime is always punishable save in cases of justification or excuse expressly provided by law (Arts. 68-81).

(3) No person shall be convicted for what he neither knew of or Intended, nor for what goes beyond what he intended either directly or as a possibility, subject to the provisions governing negligence .

Keywords

Mental element
Intent - national proceedings
Knowledge - national proceedings



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