2025 Delaware Code
Title 11 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Chapter 5. SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Subchapter VI. Offenses Against Public Administration
§ 1208. Defect in office no defense.

Universal Citation:
11 DE Code § 1208 (2025)
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§ 1208. Defect in office no defense.

It is no defense to a prosecution for improper influence that a person whom the accused sought to influence was not qualified to act in the desired way, whether because the person had not yet assumed office, or lacked jurisdiction or for any other reason.

11 Del. C. 1953, § 1208;  58 Del. Laws, c. 497, § 1;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 
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