Speights, Billy Wayne

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding “the Legislature intended that both theories of indecency with a child [by exposure and contact] may be pled and punished, even when the exposure precedes the contact and even when both acts occur within the same transaction”
• providing double jeopardy protects against second prosecution for the same offense after an acquittal or following conviction or multiple punishment for same offense
• “The constitutional proscription against double jeopardy provides . . . protection against multiple punishments for the same offense.”
• describing the three protections afforded by the Double Jeopardy Clause
• discussing “units of prosecution” under a single statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).