Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 427

FORMERLY

SENATE BILL NO. 435

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 47, TITLE 16, DELAWARE CODE, RELATING TO TRAFFICKING IN DRUGS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE:

Section 1. Amend §4753A, Chapter 47, Title 16, Delaware Code, by adding thereto a new subsection (e) to read as follows:

"(e) In any prosecution under this Section the State need not prove that the defendant had any knowledge as to the weight of substance possessed. The State need only prove that the defendant knew that the substance was possessed; and, that in fact the substance was that which is alleged and that the substance in fact weighed a certain amount."

Approved July 23, 1990.