Pearce v The Queen

[1998] HCA 57
Judgment date
Case number
S87/1997
Before
McHugh, Gummow, Kirby, Hayne , Callinan JJ
Catchwords

Criminal law – Double jeopardy – Appellant charged with and convicted of two offences arising out of same facts – Whether plea in bar available – Whether an abuse of process – Whether double punishment.

Crimes Act 1900 (NSW), ss 33, 110.