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Home » US Law » 2022 New Hampshire Revised Statutes » Title LXII - Criminal Code » Title 626 - General Principles » Section 626:1 – Requirement of a Voluntary Act.
    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.