TABLE OF CONTENTS III.-OF THE COURTS OF OYER AND TERMINER. CHAPTER I. The city court of Brooklyn.............. II. The superior court of Buffalo III. The other city courts..... IV. General provisions relating to city courts. III. Police in cities and villages, and their III. Arrest by an officer under a warrant..... 167-176 CHAPTER I. Appeals, when allowed, and how taken.. 515-532 .......... 684 XI. Errors and mistakes, in pleadings and other proceedings.. OF PROCEEDINGS IN COURTS OF SPECIAL SESSIONS AND PO- TITLE I.-OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN COURTS OF SPE- CIAL SESSIONS IN THE COUNTIES OTHER II.-OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN THE COURTS OF III. Enforcement of the undertaking for the support of the bastard or its mother, or for appearance on appeal...... CHAPTER 442, LAWS OF 1881, AN ACT To establish a Code of Criminal Procedure. Passed June 1, 1881; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS. SEC. 1. Title of the Code. 2. Divisions of the Code. 3. No person punishable but on legal conviction. 5. Criminal action defined. 6. Parties to a criminal action. 7 The party prosecuted known as defendant. 8 Rights of defendant in a criminal action. 9. Second prosecution for the same crime prohibited. 10. No person to be a witness against himself in a criminal action or to be unnecessarily restrained. SECTION 1. Title of Code. This act shall be known as the Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of New York. § 2. Divisions of the Code. This Code is divided into six parts. The first relates to the courts having original jurisdiction in criminal actions; The second relates to the prevention of crime; The third relates to the judicial proceedings for the removal of public officers by impeachment or otherwise; The fourth relates to the proceedings in criminal actions prosecuted by indictment; |