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  • PART IV CRIMES, PUNISHMENTS AND PROCEEDINGSIN CRIMINAL CASES
    (Chapters 263 through 280)
  • TITLE I CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
  • CHAPTER 265 CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON
  • Section 5 Duel; conviction or acquittal in foreign state; effect

Section 5. A person indicted under either of the two preceding sections may plead a former conviction or acquittal of the same crime in any other state or country; and if his plea is admitted or established, it shall be a bar to all further proceedings against him for the same crime within this commonwealth.