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The Penal Code of the State of New York, Being Chapter 676 of the Laws of 1881, as Amended by the Laws of 1882-1906, Inclusive
The Penal Code of the State of New York Being Chapter 676 of the Laws of 1881 as Amended by the Laws of 18821906 Inclusive Author:New York Subtitle: With Notes, Forms and Index General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1906 Original Publisher: Banks Law Pub. Co. Subjects: Law / General Law / Criminal Law / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy ... more »the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. County Court. Sec. 3D. Jurisdiction. 40. Indictment to be sent, etc. 41. Otber indictments, etc. 42. By whom held. 43. Justice disqualified. 44. Idem. 46. When and where held; juries. 46. Jnrora, when to be drawn. 47. Clerk. 48. "Writ or process. 49. Compensation of justice. | 38. JtwUdtotlon. The county courts embraced in this chapter have jurisdiction: 1. To inquire by the intervention of a grand jury of all crimes committed or triable in the county; but in respect of such minor crimes, as courts of special sessions or police courts have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine, in the first instance, the jurisdiction of the county court attaches only after the certificate mentioned in section fifty-seven of this Code. 2. To try and determine indictments found therein or sent thereto by the supreme court or by a city court in the county for crimes not punishable with death; and the county court of Kings county shall also have jurisdiction to try and determine all such indictments, including those for crimes punishable with death. 3. To hear and determine appeals from orders of justices of the peace, under the provisions of law respecting the support of bastards. 4. To examine into the circumstances of persons committed to prison as parents of bastards, and to discharge them in the cases provided by law. 5. To try and determine complaints under the provisions of law respecting masters, apprentices and servants. G. To review the convict...« less