Ragland v. Davis

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• rejecting rule of lenity argument because essential elements of two offenses differed
• rejecting rule of lenity argument because essential elements of two offenses differed
• the crimes of cruelty to children in the second degree and third degree, as alleged in the indictment, could not be proven by the same evidence, and thus the rule of lenity did not apply

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