§ 842. Discharge of jury not a former acquittal

Cite as: 22 CNCA § 842

If an information for the higher offense is filed within a year next thereafter, he must be tried thereon, and a plea of former acquittal to such last prosecution is not sustained by the fact of the discharge of the jury on the first information.

Historical Data

LA 10–90, eff. November 13, 1990.