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An Act to change the manner of trying Slaves for misdemeanors and certain Crimes. 1830 35 (1830)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmo0014 and id is 1 raw text is: ,CRIMINAL PROCEEDING-53 CISAP218r XXUTEL CluMlNAL PROCEEDINGS. AN ACTs:pplcnentary to anl act to regulate proccedings in Criminal case. Sec. 1. De it enarted b the General ./ssenbly of the Slate Act of Itiet .0f Alissouri, That so muco of the forly first section of the tsno IItP-00n act to which this is a supplemenit as limits the time for in- toigor dicteints to be. commenced and prosecuted within oneileeingtaor year from the time ofcommitting the offence, or incurringistico. the line or forfeiture, shall not be so construed as to extood Indictmentnot or apply to any person or persons absconding or fleeing tobediscon- from Justice. Nor shall any indictment for any offence tiued forwint whatever, he discontinued or abated for the want ofa ea.I cias be- pias being issued or taken out from term to term where the .g Isse d foti M terau to tumj. person or persons, have so fled or absconded from justice that the ordinary process oflaw cannot he served on him or them, 1ut it shall and may be lawful for the Court,on cause to be the suggestion of the Attorney General or Circuit Attorney conitoniodgell to continue the caii'e genarally. And it shall moreover bc tl lawful, for the Attorney General or Circuit Attorney t CApiasinay h their discretion at any subsequent time to order a capias to issued atinny be issued on said endictment against the person or person subsiuent' charged for any crime or misdemeanor, against whom such t iindic'ment hasbeii found. And lie it further enacted, that all acts and parts ofacts coming within the purview of this act, he ancj the same are hereby repealed. This act to take ef~ect an! 'c in force from and after the passage there. of. .'1jproed, Deccmber 31 1030. CHAPTER XZV !. 1ODE OF TRYING SLAVES. ;AN AC'r t. change the mauncr of trying Slaves for misdemcanors and certain Crimes, Sec. 1. Be it cnacted by the General .ssembly of the State efllissouri, That if any slave or slaves shall do any of the Slaves for ce! acts or things mentioned in the nin,ty-third section of tain iffonces act entitled an act concerning crimes and punishmentsishe sun- 8 isted sinmit. approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred and twenty.rilybyjustices five, or shall do any other act or thing properly known or of the pente, r.ccognized by existing law as. a misdemeanor, he she or t.ey so offiending, instead of being subject to indict.

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