Sec. 7. It is a defense that the person who engaged in the prohibited conduct was reasonably mistaken about a matter of fact, if the mistake negates the culpability required for commission of the offense.
Ind. Code § 35-41-3-7
Mistake of fact
Applied in 15 court decisions — leading case Tyson v. Trigg (1995)
Most recently applied in William C. McCollum v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.) (September 2016)
As added by Acts 1976, P.L.148, SEC.1
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.