A Treatise on Federal Criminal Law Procedure, with Forms of Indictment

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO THE PRACTICE. 10. United States Trial Courts. 11. United States Commissioners. 12. Prosecution Begun by Indictment. 13. Grand Jury; Indictment, Remission of Same; Copy of Indictment; List of Witnesses. 14. Preliminary Proceedings of Prosecution, Removal, and Extent of Inquiry by Court Into Indictment. 15. Bail Bond, Recognizance; Action Thereon. 16. Challenges to Jurors; Impeachment of Verdict; Loss of Juror. 17. Return, Endorsements on, and Forms of Indictment. 18. Consolidation of Indictments; Joinder of Defendants. 19. Question of Duplicity in Indictment, and When to Raise It. 20. Confessions, Full; Nature of, Voluntary, Etc. 21. Admissibility of Documentary Evidence Which Has Been Secured Illegally. 22. Comments, Improper Argument, of District Attorney or Defense; Failure of Defendant to Furnish Character Testimony; Cannot Compel Defendant to Give Testimony Against Himself; Comment on Failure of Defendant to Testify in His Own Behalf. 23. Prosecuting Officer in Grand Jury Room; Limits of His Expression. 24. Jury; Right of Trial; Waiver Thereof; Necessity for Requisite Number; Illegal to Try with Eleven. 25. Care of Jury; Moral Weight of Verdict; Legal Weight of Verdict; Newspapers with Jury; Attempts to Influence Verdict. 26. Evidence of Good Character of Defendant; Charge on Presump tion Thereof. 27. Instructions of the Court, Form, Whether in Writing or Oral; Special Instructions. 28. Opinion of Court; How Guarded. 29. Court Cannot Comment on Lack of Evidence; Presumption of Good Character. 30. Further Limitation on Comment of Court. 31. Verdict as to Part. 32. Sentence; Correction Thereof; Time of Sentence; Authority for. chapt...