State v. Alfonsi

*474Gordon, J.

Criminal Intent in Bribery.

On a number of occasions this court has had to decide whether guilt under a given statute required a specific criminal state of mind. In the recent case of State v. Croy (1966), 32 Wis. (2d) 118, 145 N. W. (2d) 118, the accused was charged under sec. 943.21, Stats., with leaving a hotel without paying his bill. An earlier Wisconsin statute had explicitly required an “intent to defraud,” but in the amended statute that phrase was omitted. We stated in the Croy Case, at page 122, that notwithstanding the amendment, “the statute requires a specific intention…