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2015 California Code
Penal Code - PEN
PART 2 - OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
TITLE 6 - PLEADINGS AND PROCEEDINGS BEFORE TRIAL
CHAPTER 4 - Plea
Section 1022.
CA Penal Code § 1022 through (2015) Leg Sess What's This?
1022. Whenever the defendant is acquitted on the merits, he is acquitted of the same offense, notwithstanding any defect in form or substance in the accusatory pleading on which the trial was had.
(Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 1674.)
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