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2025 Delaware Code
Title 10 - Courts and Judicial Procedure
Chapter 69. HABEAS CORPUS
§ 6917. Rearrest of discharged person for same offense; exceptions.
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§ 6917. Rearrest of discharged person for same offense; exceptions.
No person who has been discharged on a habeas corpus shall be again imprisoned or restrained for the same cause, unless the person is indicted therefor, or convicted thereof, or committed for want of bail by some court having jurisdiction of the cause; or unless, after a discharge for defect of proof, or for some material defect in the commitment in a criminal case, the person is again arrested on sufficient proof, and committed by legal process for the same offense.
Code 1852, § 2556; Code 1915, § 4488; Code 1935, § 4940; 10 Del. C. 1953, § 6917; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1;
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