 | Courts - 1914 - 554 pages
...this Act. (2) All causes commenced after the taking effect of this Act as follows: All criminal causes in which the punishment is by fine or imprisonment otherwise than in the penitentiary. All other criminal causes which the laws in force from time to time may permit to be prosecuted otherwise... | |
 | Texas. Legislature - 1921 - 386 pages
...hereafter provide; and no person shall be held to answer for a criminal offense, unless on an indictment of a grand jury, except in cases in which the punishment...cases of impeachment and in cases arising in the army or navy, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger. SEC. 11. BAIL.... | |
 | Charles Shirley Potts - Criminal procedure - 1921 - 282 pages
...hesitation. * * * Our organic law provides that "no person shall be held to answer for a criminal offense unless on indictment of a grand jury, except in cases...imprisonment otherwise than in the penitentiary," etc. (Bill of Rights, Sec. 10.) The case before us being a misdemeanor, but, being presented by indictment,... | |
 | Henry Schofield - Constitutional law - 1921 - 524 pages
...of 1870 says: "No person shall be held to answer for a criminal offense, unless on indictment of the grand jury, except in cases in which the punishment...or imprisonment otherwise than in the penitentiary . . . Provided, that the grand jury may be alxjlished by law in all cases." If the legislature ever... | |
 | John Abraham MacNeil - Jury - 1921 - 836 pages
...is by fine or imprisonment otherwise than in the penitentiary." Section 8, by the use of the words "in cases in which the punishment is by fine or imprisonment otherwise than in the penitentiary," evidently refers to misdemeanors ; and its plain meaning is that a person may be held to answer for... | |
 | Illinois. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1922 - 992 pages
...cause in felonies other than capital cases. 3. By any manner which the General Assembly may direct. in "cases in which the punishment is by fine or imprisonment otherwise than in the penitentiary." 4. By impeachment. 5. By courts martial. Between number 2 and number 3 there is a further class of... | |
 | Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago - Children - 1922 - 198 pages
...ch. 37, have jurisdiction in, among others, the follow- sec- 265' ing cases : Third. In all criminal cases in which the punishment is by fine or imprisonment, otherwise than in the penitentiary, and all other criminal cases which the laws may permit to be prosecuted, otherwise than on indictment.... | |
 | Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago - Children - 1922 - 198 pages
...PROSECUTED — IN- Sec. 290. FORMATION — COMPLAINT. — All criminal cases in the municipal court, in which the punishment is by fine or imprisonment, otherwise than in the penitentiary, may be prosecuted by information of the state's attorney or some other person, and when an information... | |
 | United States - Constitutional history - 1896 - 448 pages
...imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. SEC. 10. Except in cases of- impeachment, and cases arising in the army and navy, or in the militia when in actual service m time of war or public danger, and in cases of petit larceny and other inferior offenses,... | |
 | Charles Burleigh Galbreath - Biography - 1925 - 844 pages
...fines imposed ; nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted. Sec. 10. Except in cases of impeachment, cases arising in the army and navy, or in the militia when in actual service in time of war or public danger, and cases involving offenses for which the penalty provided... | |
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No person shall be held to answer for a criminal offense, unless on indictment of a grand jury, except in cases in which the punishment is by fine, or imprisonment otherwise than in the penitentiary... 
