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5 By prohibiting multiple punishments for a single criminal act Penal Code section 654. affords protection beyond and different from that given by either the constitutional proscrip-. tion of subsequent jeopardy or the implementation of that doctrine by Penal Code section 1023..
A) Offences which must always be tried on indictment. There are a number of offences which must be tried before a judge and jury and these offences are listed in the Criminal Procedure Act 1967 and the Criminal Law (Rape) (Amendment) Act 1990. These include: 1  Offence under the Treason Act 1939. 2  Murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to murder.