A mistake of fact occurs whereby the perpetrator violates criminal law since his/her grasp on reality is erroneous. In such cases, the basic assumption is that the perpetrator would not have acted in the way he did had he/she known the facts of the case. In our case, A hunter mistakes a helper for a bear and shoots the helper. In this case, he does not have the intent to kill a human         being and cannot be punished because of “mistake of fact”. The correct answer is C.