Code of Criminal Procedure

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Robert Smith Company, State Printers, 1927 - Criminal law - 94 pages
 

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Page 21 - ... shall thereupon hold an inquest, which may be private, in which case any or all persons, other than those required to be present by the provisions of this chapter, may be excluded from the place where...
Page 36 - In an action for libel or slander, it shall not be necessary to state in the complaint any extrinsic facts for the purpose of showing the application to the plaintiff of the defamatory matter out of which the cause of action arose ; but it shall be sufficient to state generally, that the same was published or spoken concerning the plaintiff; and if such allegation be controverted, the plaintiff shall establish on the trial that it was so published or spoken.
Page 77 - Territory to which such person has fled, and produces a copy of an indictment found, or an affidavit made before a magistrate of any State or Territory, charging the person demanded with having committed treason, felony, or other crime, certified as authentic by the Governor or Chief Magistrate of the State or Territory from whence the person so charged has fled...
Page 59 - The persons served with such process shall be allowed the same fees, their attendance may be enforced in the same manner, and they shall . be subject to the same penalties, as if served with a summons in behalf of the state in a criminal prosecution pending before a district court.
Page 39 - All compensation for services and expenses provided for in this act shall be paid by the state treasurer upon the warrant of the auditor general...
Page 52 - From a decision arresting a judgment of conviction for insufficiency of the indictment, where such decision is based upon the invalidity or construction of the statute upon which the indictment is founded.
Page 25 - ... present things truly, as they come to your knowledge, according to the best of your understanding; so help you God.
Page 47 - A person who, after having been three times convicted within this state, of felonies or attempts to commit felonies, or under the law of any other state, government or country, of crimes which if committed within this state would be felonious, commits a felony within this state, shall be sentenced upon conviction of such fourth, or subsequent, offense to imprisonment in a state prison for the term of his natural life...
Page 36 - In any indictment for murder or manslaughter, or for being an accessory to any murder or manslaughter, it shall not be necessary to set forth the manner in which, or the means by which, the death of the deceased was caused, but it shall be sufficient in any indictment for murder to charge that the defendant did feloniously...
Page 39 - ... direct such person to be indicted for felony, in which case such person may be dealt with in all respects as if he had not been put upon his trial for such misdemeanor.

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