Every person charged with an offense committed in another state, territory, or country may plead a former conviction or acquittal for the same offense in such other state, territory, or country; and, if such plea be established, it shall be a bar to any further proceedings for the same offense here.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 2(6); 1857, ch. 64, art. 4; 1871, § 2881; 1880, § 2997; 1892, § 1337; 1906, § 1409; Hemingway's 1917, § 1164; 1930, § 1189; 1942, § 2432.
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