Legal Definition and Related Resources of Included Offense

At common law when an accused was charged with an offense that included a lesser offense, even though acquitted of the greater offense, the accused could be convicted of the lesser offense. See state v Morse, 35 S.D. 18, 150 N. W. 293.

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