The phrase "a single offense" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to one specific act that violates a law or rule.
Example: "The defendant was charged with a single offense of theft."
Alternatives: "one violation" or "a solitary infraction."
Heflin involved the imposition of separate consecutive sentences for a single offense.
Only a single gambling business was alleged, and hence only a single offense.
The Fifth Amendment requires grand jury indictment in prosecutions for major crimes and prohibits double jeopardy for a single offense.
A single offense should normally be charged in one count rather than several, even if different means of committing the offense are alleged.
The complaint against the accused describes, as I have said, only a single offense,that of selling, furnishing, and giving away intoxicating liquor without authority.
Often, however, conspiratorial organizations conduct a business rather than commit a single offense; for example, a "chain conspiracy" involves several transactions all directed toward a common unlawful objective.
The purpose of the Clause, which the Court today fails sufficiently to appreciate, is to protect the accused against the agony and risks attendant upon undergoing more than one criminal trial for any single offense.
Society's "willingness to limit the Government to a single criminal proceeding to vindicate its very vital interest in enforcement of criminal laws" bespeaks society's recognition of the gross unfairness of requiring the accused to undergo the strain and agony of more than one trial for any single offense.
"Mr. Montes has had minor traffic offenses and a single misdemeanor offense, none of which would have disqualified Mr. Montes from DACA," the lawsuit says.
This is a single, continuing offense, not a series of offenses, although it is continuously committed in each district through which the transportation is received at the prohibited rate.
"You can't see what they are doing underwater," a Colorado probation officer, DeeDee Cagle, told me, referring to the pool rule, which applies to adolescents with a single sexual offense, as well as those with multiple offenses.
