The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
Subchapter
002
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PLEADINGS AND PROOF
(Cite as: 13 V.S.A. § 6556)
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§ 6556. Former acquittal a bar
A person shall not be held to answer on a second complaint, information, or indictment
for an offense of which he or she was acquitted by a jury upon the merits on a former
trial. Such acquittal may be pleaded in bar of a subsequent prosecution for the same
offense, notwithstanding defects in the form or substance of the complaint, information,
or indictment on which he or she was acquitted.