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Brief of Criminal Law

Related Offenses. Acquital or conviction, res adjudicata.

Where two or more offenses of the same nature are by statute carved out of the same transaction and are properly the subject of single investigation, an acquittal or conviction for one of the several offenses bar prosecution for the others.

Dowdy v. State, 158 Tenn. 364, and cases cited

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