Edenton v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• reversing misdemeanor conviction for driving without valid license, holding that the misdemeanor of which defendant was convicted was not substantially charged in indictment and was not lesser-included offense of driving after being declared habitual offender
• reversing misdemeanor conviction for driving without valid license, holding that the misdemeanor of which defendant was convicted was not substantially charged in indictment and was not lesser-included offense of driving after being declared habitual offender
• “[Cjonviction of a lesser-included offense bars prosecution of the offense in which it is included.”
• legislature did not intend to immunize defendant convicted of misdemeanor from punishment for felony; contrary interpretation would defeat public policy goals of Habitual Offender Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).