St. Johnsbury Trucking Company, Inc. v. United States

I agree that the judgment of the district court should be set aside and the case remanded for further proceedings. It may be, though this is not entirely clear, that the district court was led to enter judgment against the defendant by reason of an erroneous view of the law. In its opinion, the district court said [122 F.Supp. 816] that the particular offense charged in the information “requires no element of criminal intent”, and that if it is found that the defendant knew, “or in the exercise of reasonable care should have known, of the dangerous content of the batteries and the weight of…