Article 118 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK ONE · TITLE FIVE. Of the Grounds for Extinction of the Criminal Action · CHAPTER IX. Existence of a Prior Judgment (sentencia) Rendered in a Proceeding Followed for the Same Facts
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
No one may be tried twice for the same crime, whether in the trial he is acquitted or convicted. When a judgment has been issued in one proceeding and it appears that another exists in relation to the same person and for the same facts considered in the former, the second proceeding shall conclude by means of a resolution that the authority that is hearing it shall issue ex officio. If two judgments exist on the same facts, the effects of the one issued second shall be extinguished.