14-5121. Ignorance or mistake of law.1
Evidence has been presented that the defendant was [ignorant of] [mistaken about] the law which he is accused of violating. When a person voluntarily does that which the law forbids and declares to be a crime, it is no defense that he did not know that his act was unlawful or that he believed it to be lawful.
USE NOTES
1. No instruction on this subject shall be given.
You are being directed to the most recent version of the statute which may not be the version considered at the time of the judgment.