Criminal Procedure Definition

Criminal Procedure Sentence Examples

• The first part of the commission's work, consisting of a code of civil procedure, was reported and enacted in 1848, and by the 1st of January 1850 the complete code of civil and criminal procedure was completed, and was subsequently enacted by the legislature.

• Thus by the New York Code of Criminal Procedure the governor of the state of New York has power to grant reprieves, commutations and pardons, except in the case of treason, where he can only suspend the execution of the sentence until the case can be reported to the legislature, with whom the power of pardon in this case rests.

• Ordinary private law, including property, contracts, torts, family relations, offences, civil and criminal procedure.

• A criminal code was drawn up, together with a criminal procedure proclamation.

• The penal code, originally drawn up by Macaulay in 1837, passed into law in 1860, together with codes of civil and criminal procedure.