TITLE 19

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 3

LOCAL JURISDICTION OF PUBLIC OFFENSES

19-315.  Conviction or acquittal in another state. When an act charged as a public offense, is within the venue of another state, territory, or country, as well as of this state, a conviction or acquittal thereof in the former is a bar to the prosecution or indictment therefor in this state.

History:

[19-315, added 1972, ch. 336, sec. 4, p. 986; am. 1986, ch. 289, sec. 15, p. 731.]