Court Opinion

ID: 9456233
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:46:31.434176+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:54.162792
License: Public Domain

ROBB, Circuit Judge
(concurring):
I concur in the result and agree that the bill amending the burglary statute became law at 3:05 P.M., December 27, *4231967, when the President signed it. I do not agree to the implication in Part IV of the opinion, that the appellant was not bound by the amended statute unless knowledge of the contents of the bill and of its enactment was in fact available to him. In my opinion this is not the law; certainly it is not so in the case of a statute dealing with a crime malum in se, such as burglary. I think the statutory enactment was, in law, notice of its terms to all affected, including the appellant. See 3 M. Merrill on Notice, § 1104 (1952).