No offense committed and no fine, penalty or forfeiture incurred, or prosecution commenced or pending previous to or at the time when any statutory provision is repealed or amended, shall be affected by the repeal or amendment, but the trial and punishment of all such offenses, and the recovery of the fines, penalties or forfeitures shall be had, in all respects, as if the provision had not been repealed or amended, except that all such proceedings shall be conducted according to existing procedural laws.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 1.160
Effect of repeal of penal statute
Known as the Second Amendment Preservation Act
The act spans §§ 1–1 (43 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case United States v. United States Coin & Currency (1971)
Most recently applied in Higgins v. Smith (April 1993)
Effective: 28 Aug 2005, 3 histories; (RSMo 1939 § 4861, A.L. 1957 p. 587, A.L. 1993 S.B. 180, A.L. 2005 H.B. 353); Prior revisions: 1929 § 4468; 1919 § 3709; 1909 § 4920
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.