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Question 1 In a penalty clause refers only to natural persons insofar as death or imprisonment is provided, but insofar as a fine refers to any person. Whoever

Question 2 The articles of this Code cannot be extended by analogy so as to create crimes not provided for herein; according to the fair import of their words, taken in their usual sense, in connection with the context, and with reference to the purpose of the provision. Interpretation

Question 3 An offender who commits an offense which includes all the elements of other lesser offenses, may be prosecuted for and convicted of either the greater offense or one of the lesser and included offenses. Lesser and included offenses

Question 4 Is that conduct which is defined as criminal in this Code, or in other acts of the legislature, or in the constitution of this state. crime

Question 5 Is that state of mind which exists when the circumstances indicate that the offender actively desired the prescribed criminal consequences to follow his act or failure to act.   Specific criminal intent

Question 6 When the circumstances indicate that the offender, in the ordinary course of human experience, must have adverted to the prescribed criminal consequences as reasonably certain to result from his act or failure to act. General criminal intent

Question 7 Exists when, although neither specific nor general criminal intent is present, there is such disregard of the interest of others that the offender's conduct amounts to a gross deviation. Criminal negligence

Question 8 Those who have not reached the age of ten years are exempt from criminal responsibility.  Infancy

Question 9 Unless there is a provision to the contrary in the definition of a crime, reasonable ignorance of fact which precludes the presence of any mental element required in that crime is a defense to any prosecution for that crime.  Mistake of fact

Question 10 Ignorance of the provision of this Code or of any criminal statute is not a defense to any criminal prosecution. Mistake of law