Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 10 Criminal Procedure - Section 10.43.020 Offense embraces lower degree and included offenses

§ 10.43.020. Offense embraces lower degree and included offenses

When the defendant has been convicted or acquitted upon an indictment or information of an offense consisting of different degrees, the conviction or acquittal shall be a bar to another indictment or information for the offense charged in the former, or for any lower degree of that offense, or for an offense necessarily included therein.

[1891 c 28 § 74; Code 1881 § 1096; 1873 p 238 § 257; 1854 p 120 § 121; RRS § 2166.]

Notes:
Bar as to prosecution for same crime in another degree, or attempt: RCW 10.43.050. Sections:  10.43.020  10.43.030  10.43.040  10.43.050  Next

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