Legal Opinion
People v. OSKINS
California Court of Appeal
Decided February 9, 1999No. B117298PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
EPSTEIN, J.
Penal Code section 12020 makes it illegal to possess any of a long list of weapons. (All unlabeled statutory references are to the Penal Code.) Among them is a “dirk or dagger.” Subdivision (c)(24) of the statute defines those terms as “a knife or other instrument with or without a handguard that is capable of ready use as a stabbing weapon that may inflict great bodily injury or death.” The principal issue in this case is what, if any, mens rea is required for violation of this portion of the statute.
William S. Oskins appeals from his judgment of conviction by jury trial of…
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