§15-3-8. Crimes punishable under different provisions.


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  • Any act or omission declared criminal and punishable in different ways by different provisions of law shall be punished only under one of such provisions, and a conviction or acquittal under any one shall bar a prosecution for the same act or omission under any other provision.

(Code 1923, §5204; Code 1940, T. 15, §287.)