19.2-293 - When acquittal not a bar to further prosecution for same offense. - Virginia Statutes

§ 19.2-293. When acquittal not a bar to further prosecution for same offense.

A person acquitted of an offense on the ground of a variance between theallegations and the proof of the indictment or other accusation, or upon anexception to the form or substance thereof, may be arraigned again on a newindictment or other proper accusation, and tried and convicted for the sameoffense, notwithstanding such former acquittal.

(Code 1950, § 19.1-258; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.)