Section 5 Excluded Statutory Chapters or Sections

• Library: Criminal Code Revision History & Overview 2014

Wide-ranging as it might have been, the Revised Code did not make alterations to every part of the Original Code. The Original Code omitted three major areas:

1. Homicide offenses

2. Narcotics offenses

3. Weapons offenses

At the time, the homicide offenses had only recently been enacted by the General Assembly, including the sections related to capital murder and the death penalty. Those sections had been recently revised with respect to the imposition of the death penalty in light of recent United States Supreme Court caselaw. The narcotics offenses were later revised with the Comprehensive Drug Control Act of 1989, Pub. L. No. 91-513, 84 Stat. 1236, and Chapter 571, RSMo, Weapons Offenses. The pre-Revised Code weapons offenses were not revised.

Coincidently, the Revised Code also omits two of these...