THE CODE

OF

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

OF THE

STATE OF NEW YORK.

AN ACT

TO ESTABLISH A CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Sen ate 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.
4. Crimes, how prosecuted.

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. This act shall be known as the Code of Crim- Title of