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Ark. Code Ann. § 5-1-113

Affirmative defense — Former prosecution for different offense

Known as the Arkansas Criminal Code

The act spans §§ 5–5 (18 sections).

Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Prince v. State (1991)

Most recently applied in Dilday v. State (February 2007)

Acts 1975, No. 280, § 107; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-107.

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A former prosecution is an affirmative defense to a subsequent prosecution for a different offense under the following circumstances:

(1) The former prosecution resulted in an acquittal or in a conviction as set out in § 5-1-112, and the subsequent prosecution is for: Any offense of which the defendant could have been convicted in the first prosecution; or

(2) An offense based on the same conduct, unless: The offense of which the defendant was formerly convicted or acquitted and the offense for which he or she is subsequently prosecuted each requires proof of a fact not required by the other offense and the law defining each offense is intended to prevent a substantially different harm or evil; or

(3) The second offense was not consummated when the former trial began;

(4) The former prosecution was terminated by an acquittal or by a final order or judgment for the defendant that has not been set aside, reversed, or vacated and that necessarily required a determination inconsistent with a fact that must be established for conviction of the second offense; or

(5) The former prosecution was terminated under the circumstances described in § 5-1-112 and the subsequent prosecution is for an offense of which the defendant could have been convicted had the former prosecution not been terminated.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.