95 Ohio App. 236 - State v. Buttery’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““It is almost universally held that when a statute makes an act an offense irrespective of guilty knowledge, then ignorance of fact, no matter how sincere, is no defense. There are annotated in 115 A.L.R., 1230 , many authorities which hold that ‘in a prosecution for selling liquor to a minor, under a statute which forbids or makes unlawful such a sale, but does not expressly or by clear implication make ignorance of minority a defense, the seller’s ignorance that the buyer was a minor, or bona fide belief that he was of legal age, is not available as a defense.’ “This is the general rule, and the Ohio statute forbidding sale of liquor to minors (Section 12960, General Code) does not make ignorance of minority a defense, and therefore a saloonkeeper or bartender in this state who sells liquor to a minor for his consumption violates the statute even though he may honestly believe the minor is of legal age.” (Emphasis added.) Id. at 206, 28 O.O. at 309 , 55 N.E. 2d at 345 . See, also, State v. Buttery (1953), 95 Ohio App. 236 , 53 O.O. 168 , 118 N.E. 2d 548 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 43 Ohio App. 3d 221 - State v. Cheraso