GENERAL PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS APPLICABLE TO Abatement of nuisance...... THIS CODE. No part of this Code retroactive, unless expressly so declared.............. Present tense includes future, etc... SECTION. 953 954 955 956 957 958 959 960 961 902 968 This Code is general in its nature, purports to apply to all criminal proceedings, and was passed for the purpose of blending into one intelligent and consistent act, all the various proceedings necessary, in administering the criminal law. Fraser v. Board, etc., 17 State Rep. 875. * See Laws 1892, ch. 677, § 29, post. THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. Laws 1881, Chapter 442. 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. SECTION 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 the Code. This act shall be known as the Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of New York. This Code is general in its nature, purports to apply to all criminal proceedings, and was passed for the purpose of blending into one intelligent and consistent act, all the various proceedings necessary, in administering the criminal law. Fraser v. Board, etc., 17 State Rep. 875. * See Laws 1892, ch. 677, § 29, post. |