TITLE 19

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 21

TRIAL

19-2105.  Doubt as to degree of crime. When it appears that the defendant has committed a public offense, and there is reasonable ground of doubt in which of two or more degrees he is guilty, he can be convicted of the lowest of such degrees only.

History:

[19-2105, added 1972, ch. 336, sec. 8, p. 987.]