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2013 New Hampshire Revised Statutes
Title LXII - CRIMINAL CODE
Chapter 626 - GENERAL PRINCIPLES
Section 626:1 - Requirement of a Voluntary Act.
NH Rev Stat § 626:1 (2013) What's This?
626:1 Requirement of a Voluntary Act. –
I. A person is not guilty of an offense unless his criminal liability is based on conduct that includes a voluntary act or the voluntary omission to perform an act of which he is physically capable.
II. Possession is a voluntary act if the possessor knowingly procured or received the thing possessed or was aware of his control thereof for a sufficient period to have been able to terminate his possession.
Source. 1971, 518:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.
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