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10.37.050 Indictment or information -- Sufficiency
The indictment or information is sufficient if it can be understood therefrom -- (1) That it is entitled in a court having authority to receive ...
10.37.052 Indictment or information -- Requisites
The indictment or information must contain -- (1) The title of the action, specifying the name of the court to which the indictment or information ...
10.37.054 Indictment or information -- Certainty
The indictment or information must be direct and certain as it regards: (1) The party charged; (2) The crime charged; and (3) The particular circumstances ...
10.37.056 Indictment or information -- Certain defects or imperfections deemed immaterial
No indictment or information is insufficient, nor can the trial, judgment or other proceedings thereon be affected, by reason of any of the following matters, ...
10.37.060 Indictment or information -- Separation into counts -- Consolidation
When there are several charges against any person, or persons, for the same act or transaction, or for two or more acts or transactions connected ...
10.37.070 Animals -- Description of
When the crime involves the taking of or injury to an animal the indictment or information is sufficiently certain in that respect if it describes ...
10.37.080 Forgery -- Description of instrument
When an instrument which is the subject of an indictment or information for forgery has been destroyed or withheld by the act or procurement of ...
10.37.090 Injury to person or intention concerning
When the crime involves the commission of, or an attempt to commit a private injury, and is described with sufficient certainty in other respects to ...
10.37.100 Judgment, how pleaded
In pleading a judgment or other determination of or proceeding before a court or officer of special jurisdiction, it is not necessary to state in ...
10.37.110 Larceny or embezzlement -- Specification
In an indictment or information for larceny or embezzlement of money, bank notes, certificates of stock, or valuable securities, or for a conspiracy to cheat ...
10.37.120 Libel -- Innuendos -- Publication
An indictment or information for libel need not set forth any extrinsic facts, for the purpose of showing the application to the party libeled of ...
10.37.130 Obscene literature -- Description
An indictment or information for exhibiting, publishing, passing, selling, or offering to sell, or having in possession with such intent, any lewd or obscene book, ...
10.37.140 Perjury -- Subornation of perjury -- Description of matter
In an indictment or information for perjury, or subornation of perjury, it is sufficient to set forth the substance of the controversy or matter in ...
10.37.150 Presumptions of law need not be stated
Neither presumptions of law nor matters of which judicial notice is taken need be stated in an indictment or information.[1891 c 28 § 31; Code ...
10.37.160 Statute -- Exact words need not be used
Words used in a statute to define a crime need not be strictly pursued in the indictment or information, but other words conveying the same ...
10.37.170 Statute, private -- Description
In pleading a private statute, or right derived therefrom, it is sufficient to refer, in the indictment or information, to the statute by its title ...
10.37.190 Words and phrases -- How used
The words used in an indictment or information must be construed in their usual acceptation, in common language, except words and phrases defined by law, ...
Last modified: April 7, 2009
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