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Ark. Code Ann. § 9-27-319

Double jeopardy

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Oliver v. State (1993)

Most recently applied in Munhall v. State (March 1999)

Acts 1989, No. 273, § 18.

(1) No juvenile who has been subjected to an adjudication pursuant to a petition alleging him or her to be delinquent shall be tried later under criminal charges based upon facts alleged in the petition to find him or her delinquent.

(2) No juvenile who has been tried for a violation of the criminal laws of this state shall be later subjected to a delinquency proceeding arising out of the facts that formed the basis of the criminal charges.

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.