Labels:book | reckoner | sky | tree | windowpane OCR: I. The "Willfulness" Requirenent IT This Context Does Not Justify Departure The General Rule That Ignorance The lay Does Not Cxcuse Crininal Conduct This Court has observed that "willfully word of many meanngs and "its construction [is] often influenced by its context Spies United States, 317 U.S. 492 497 {1943} When used 111 criminal statute however generally means act done with bad purpose. United States dock 290 U.S. 389, 394 -395 1933). See also efton United States, 96 699, 702 (1878) (the term "willfully "the ordinary sense ir which used in statuter means acting "with bad purpose' with "evil intent The reuuirement pr.c.a pur- pa5e means that more 1 required than simply "the doing of the act proser ibed by the statute. Screws United States; 325 101 (1945) (plurality opinion) Instead, e ...
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