Table of Contents TITLE 45. CRIMES CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS Part 1. Construction and Applicability
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Mont. Code Ann. § 45-1-101

Short title

This title shall be known and may be cited as the "Criminal Code of 1973".

Opinions construing this section

2 opinions
2024 MT 37 Feb 27, 2024 Reversed
State v. D. Rowe
Majority by Laurie McKinnon · 5 to 1
no bearing on either the substantive nature of the charged criminal conduct in a particular case, or the statutorily specified required elements of proof. See § 45-1-101, MCA (defining offenses cognizable under the Montana “Criminal Code”); compare § 46-1-103, MCA (Montana Code of Criminal Procedure). 4 See similarly §§ 15-
2018 MT 254 Oct 16, 2018 Affirmed
State v. B. Mills
Majority by Dirk M. Sandefur · 5 to 0
states, Montana replaced its former common-law based criminal code with a modified version of the Model Penal Code (Am. Law Inst. 1962) (hereinafter MPC). See § 45-1-101, MCA; State v. Watson, 211 Mont. 401, 408, 686 P.2d 879, 883 (1984); Jeff Essman, A Primer on the Element of Mental State in the Montana Criminal Code of 1973, 37 M
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History:
En. 94-1-101 by Sec. 1, Ch. 513, L. 1973
R.C.M. 1947, 94-1-101.
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