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Of trials for offences, and proceedings incident thereto. 1854-1855 1188 (1855)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmo0144 and id is 1 raw text is: (HiAP. 127. When cause is continued, the parties may require witnesses to enter into re- cognizance, &o.; penalty for non-tt- tendance, &o. One change -of venue only allowed to same defend- ant. Sections six- teen, seven- teen and eigh- teen, shall not apply to the county of St. Louis. 1. Issues of fact on indictments, how to be tried. 2. Court may try misdemeanors, when. 8. Jury of part aliens not allowed; aliens, by what jurors to be tried. 4. On indictment for criminal of- fence, in what cases defendant entitled to peremptory cial- lenge of jurors. 5. Defendants shall join in their challenges, when. C. State may challenge perempto- rily four jurors. 7. Number of jurors to be sum- moned in criminal cases. 8. In what cases, and when list of jurors to be delivered to de- fendant. 0. Grand jurors who found in- dictment not to be on petit jury. 10. On trial of a slave, or of a per- son for injury to a slave, who shall not serve as a juror at such trial. 11. Certain persons not to serve as jurors in certain eases. 12. Persons who entertain certain opinions, not allowed as ju- rors for offences punishable with death. 13. Witness not to be sworn as a juror, if challenged for that cause; juror to disclose facts in the cause, if he knows any, in open court. 14. What shall be good cause of challenge to a juror. respects as if no order of removal had been made as to any defendant. SEC. 89.-Whenever a criminal case shall be continued, all the witnesses in attendance shall be called by the court, and as many of them as the parties may desire shall be re- quired to enter into recognizance for their appearance at the next term at which such case shall be set for trial; and if any such witness shall fail to appear in said court, when so called for the purpose of being recognized, such witness shall forfeit all his fees as witness in such cause, and may be compelled so to appear by attachment. SEC. 40.- Whenever an application for a change of venue shall be made, in conformity to the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-fourth sections of this arti- cle, a change of venue shall be awarded as a matter of right, and the court or judge shall have no discretionary power to refuse the same; but only one change of venue shall be awarded, under the provisions of this act, to the same defendant. SEC. 41.-That sections sixteen, seventeen and eighteen, of this article, shall not apply to the county of St. Louis, but all changes of venue therein shall be governed by the laws in force in such county. ARTICLE VI. OF TRIALS FOR OFFENCES, AND PROCEEDINGS INCIDENT THERETO. 1188 PRACTICE IN CRIMINAL CASES.

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