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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..
Where defendant, charged with two counts of menacing which arose out of same act, claimed that counts should be tried separately, trial court did not err in trying charges together since charges were so closely related that no relevant evidence was admissible in joint trial that would not have been properly admitted in each separate trial. State v.