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<![CDATA[TITLE 29JUDICIAL PROCEDURE, CRIMINALCHAPTER 29-01GENERAL PROVISIONS29-01-01.How crimes prosecuted - Exceptions.Every public offense must beprosecuted by information or indictment unless it is one in which:1.A proceeding is had for the removal of a civil officer of the state or an officer of some<br>political subdivision thereof;2.There is a breach of military discipline arising in the militia, when in actual service,<br>and in the land and naval forces in time of war or public danger, or which this state<br>may keep, with the consent of Congress, in time of peace;3.The offense is a misdemeanor or an infraction; or4.Trial may be had in municipal court.29-01-02. Criminal action medium of trial and punishment. The proceeding by whicha party charged with a public offense is accused and brought to trial and punishment is known as<br>a criminal action.29-01-03. How prosecution entitled. A criminal action is prosecuted in the name of thestate of North Dakota as a party against the party charged with the offense.29-01-04. Affidavits need not be entitled. It is not necessary to entitle an affidavit ordeposition in an action whether taken before or after information or indictment or upon an appeal,<br>but if made without a title or with an erroneous title, it is as valid and effectual for every purpose<br>as if it were duly entitled, if it intelligibly refers to the proceeding, information, indictment, or<br>appeal in which it is made.29-01-05. Party defendant is party prosecuted. The party prosecuted in a criminalaction is designated in this code as the accused or as the defendant.29-01-06. Rights of defendant. In all criminal prosecutions the party accused has theright:1.To appear and defend in person and with counsel;2.To demand and be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation;3.To meet the witnesses against the party face to face;4.To have the process of the court to compel the attendance of witnesses in the<br>party's behalf; and5.To a speedy and public trial, and by an impartial jury in the county in which the<br>offense is alleged to have been committed or is triable, but subject to the right of the<br>state to have a change of the place of trial for any of the causes for which the party<br>accused may obtain the same.29-01-06.1. Rights of defendant - Exception. When the defendant is charged with acrime under a multiple count indictment or information as allowed by the North Dakota Rules of<br>Criminal Procedure, the defendant may be tried on all counts in any one of the counties in which<br>one of the offenses was committed.Page No. 129-01-06.2. Summoned person to report to sheriff. Whenever a person charged witha felony is not arrested but is summoned to appear in court, that person shall submit to the sheriff<br>for identification procedures at the time of the first court appearance.29-01-07. Only once prosecuted. No person can be twice put in jeopardy for the sameoffense, nor can any person be subjected to a second prosecution for a public offense for which<br>that person has once been prosecuted and convicted, or acquitted, or put in jeopardy, except as<br>is provided by law for new trials.29-01-08. Extent of restraint permissible. No person charged with a public offensecan be subjected before conviction to any more restraint than is necessary for the person's<br>detention to answer the charge.29-01-09. How conviction can be had. No person can be convicted of a crime or publicoffense except:1.By the verdict of a jury accepted and recorded by the court;2.Upon a plea of guilty;3.Upon a judgment against that person, that person's motion to quash having been<br>denied;4.Upon a judgment of a municipal court, or such other court as is or may be created<br>by law for cities in a case in which such judgment may be lawfully given without the<br>intervention of a jury; or5.By the judgment of a court, a jury having been waived.29-01-10. Where district courts held. Each district court may be held, for the trial of acriminal action, in an organized county.29-01-11.District court always open - Exception - Question of fact - Terms.Superseded by N.D.R.Crim.P., Rule 56.29-01-12. Decision of district court reviewable. The final decision of the district courtin a criminal action is reviewable and determinable by the supreme court according to law on an<br>appeal bringing up for review the record and proceedings therein.29-01-13.Definitions.As used in this title, unless the context or subject matterotherwise clearly requires:1.Superseded by N.D.R.Crim.P., Rule 3.2.An "indictment" is an accusation in writing presented by a grand jury to a competent<br>court charging a person with a crime or public offense.3.A "presentment" is an informal statement in writing by a grand jury representing to<br>the court that a public offense has been committed which is triable in the county or<br>subdivision, and that there is reasonable ground to believe that a particular individual<br>named or described has committed it.4.An "information" is an accusation in writing, in form and substance like an indictment<br>for the same offense, charging a person with a crime or public offense, signed and<br>verified by some person and presented to the district court and filed in the office of<br>the clerk of said court.5.A "magistrate" is an officer authorized by law to issue a warrant for the arrest of a<br>person charged with a crime or public offense.Page No. 26.The term "writing" includes printing and typewriting.7.The term "oath" includes an affirmation.8.The term "signature" includes a mark, when the person cannot write, the person's<br>name being written near it and the mark being witnessed by a person who writes the<br>witness's own name as a witness, except that if the paper is an affidavit or<br>deposition, or a paper issued before a judicial officer, the attestation of the officer is<br>sufficient.9.The term "county" includes an organized county, or an organized county and such<br>unorganized counties or other territory or parts of this state as may be attached by<br>law to such organized county for judicial purposes.29-01-14. Who are magistrates. The following officers are magistrates:1.The judges of the supreme court, with authority to act as such throughout the state.2.The judges of the district courts, with authority to act as such throughout the judicial<br>districts for which they respectively are elected.3.As limited by law directing the place of exercising their jurisdiction and authority,<br>magistrates appointed by the presiding judge of a judicial district, municipal judges,<br>and small claims court referees who are licensed to practice law and authorized by<br>the presiding judge of the judicial district in case of an emergency, each with<br>authority to act as magistrate throughout the county or the city for which the<br>magistrate is elected or appointed.29-01-15. Jurisdiction of municipal judges and small claims court referees. Anymunicipal judge may:1.Act as committing magistrate; provided, that this subsection does not apply to<br>municipal judges who are not attorneys currently licensed under chapter 27-11.2.Hear, try, and determine misdemeanors and infractions when jurisdiction has been<br>conferred by the Constitution of North Dakota and this and other laws.3.Adjudge and impose the punishment prescribed by law, upon conviction, in all cases<br>within the municipal judge's jurisdiction to hear, try, and determine.4.Grant temporary protection orders under the particular circumstances and for the<br>limited duration set forth in section 14-07.1-08.A small claims court referee authorized pursuant to subsection 3 of section 29-01-14 may act as<br>a committing magistrate. A magistrate appointed by the presiding judge of the judicial district has<br>the authority to act to the extent allowed by rules promulgated by the supreme court.29-01-16.When misdemeanor or infraction may be compromised.When adefendant is held to answer on a charge constituting a misdemeanor or infraction, for which a<br>person injured by the act constituting the offense has a remedy by a civil action, the offense may<br>be compromised as provided in section 29-01-17, except:1.If the offense was committed by or upon a judge of any court in this state, or in any<br>city in this state, or a peace officer, while in the execution of the duties of the<br>person's office;2.If the offense was committed with an intent to commit a felony; orPage No. 33.If the offense involves a crime of domestic violence as defined in section 14-07.1-01<br>or is a violation of section 12.1-20-05, 12.1-20-07, 12.1-20-12.1, or 12.1-20-12.2.29-01-17. Stay of proceedings upon compromise. If a party injured appears beforethe court in which a trial for the commission of a public offense is to be had, at any time before<br>the trial, and acknowledges that the party injured has received satisfaction for the injury, the<br>court, on payment of the costs incurred, may order all proceedings to be stayed upon the<br>prosecution and the defendant to be discharged therefrom, but in such a case the reasons for the<br>order must be set forth therein and entered on the minutes.29-01-18. Order to stay is a bar. The order authorized by section 29-01-17 is a bar toanother prosecution for the same offense.29-01-19. Compromise limited. A public offense may not be compromised, nor mayany proceeding for the prosecution or punishment thereof, upon a compromise, be stayed except<br>as is provided in sections 29-01-16 and 29-01-17 and with the consent of the state.29-01-20. Stolen property to be held by peace officer. When property alleged to havebeen stolen or embezzled comes into the custody of a peace officer, the peace officer shall hold<br>it subject to the order of the magistrate authorized by section 29-01-21 to direct the disposal<br>thereof.29-01-21. Magistrate to give order for delivery. On satisfactory proof of the title of theowner of the property, the magistrate before whom the complaint is laid, or who examines the<br>charge against the person accused of stealing or embezzling the property, may order it to be<br>delivered to the owner on the owner's paying the reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in<br>its preservation, to be certified by the magistrate. The order entitles the owner to demand and<br>receive the property.29-01-22. Delivery of stolen property by magistrate. If property stolen or embezzledcomes into the custody of a magistrate, it must be delivered to the owner on satisfactory proof of<br>the owner's title and on the owner's paying the necessary expenses incurred in its preservation,<br>to be certified by the magistrate.29-01-23.Court may order delivery of stolen property.If property stolen orembezzled has not been delivered to the owner, the court before which a trial is had for stealing<br>or embezzling it, on proof of the owner's title, may order it to be restored to the owner.29-01-24. Unclaimed stolen property - Delivery to county treasurer. If the propertystolen or embezzled is not claimed by the owner within six months from the conviction of a<br>person for stealing or embezzling it, the magistrate or officer having it in custody, on the payment<br>of the necessary expenses incurred in its preservation, shall deliver it to the county treasurer by<br>whom, if it is money, it must be paid into the county treasury, or if it is not money, it must be sold<br>and the proceeds paid into such treasury.29-01-25. Receipt to accused and clerk or magistrate. When money or other propertyis taken from a defendant arrested upon a charge of a public offense, the officer taking it at the<br>time shall give duplicate receipts therefor, specifying particularly the amount of the money, or the<br>kind of property taken, one of which receipts the officer shall deliver to the defendant, and the<br>other of which the officer shall file at once with the clerk of the court to which the complaint and<br>other papers in the case by law are required to be sent. When such property is taken by a police<br>officer of any incorporated city, the officer shall deliver one of the receipts to the defendant and<br>one, with the property, at once to the clerk or other person in charge of the police office in such<br>city, or, if there is no such clerk or other person, then to the magistrate before whom such<br>defendant may be taken for examination or trial.29-01-26. Duty of clerk or magistrate. The clerk, magistrate, or other person to whomproperty is delivered, as provided in section 29-01-25, shall record every amount of money and a<br>description of every article of property taken from each person arrested, attach a number to everyPage No. 4amount of money and every article of property, and make a corresponding entry thereof.<br>Sufficient compliance with this section is met if the entries are made in the docket of the<br>magistrate after the receipt and property are delivered to a magistrate, as provided in section<br>29-01-25.29-01-27.Indigent defendant - Attorney appointed - Compensation - Limitation.Repealed by S.L. 1967, ch. 259, <meta property="og:url" content="https://statutes.laws.com/test/" />
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<a href='https://statutes.laws.com/'>Statutes</a> > <a href='https://statutes.laws.com/north-dakota'>North-dakota</a> > <a href='https://statutes.laws.com/north-dakota/t29'>T29</a> > <a href='https://statutes.laws.com/north-dakota/t29/t29c01'>T29c01</a><br><br><a href="https://law.justia.com/codes/north-dakota/2009/t29/pdf/t29c01.pdf">Download pdf</a><br><div id="embed_document" style="width:625px; height:815px; text-align:center;">Loading PDF...</div><script type="text/javascript"> var pdf_url = 'https://law.justia.com/codes/north-dakota/2009/t29/pdf/t29c01.pdf'; $(document).ready(function() { var embedwindow = $("#embed_document"); if ($.browser.msie){ embedwindow.html('<embed src="'+pdf_url+'" width="100%" height="100%"></embed>'); } else { embedwindow.html('<iframe style="width:100%; height:100%;" src="https://docs.google.com/gview?url='+window.escape(pdf_url)+'&embedded=true" frameborder="0"></iframe>'); } });</script><br><br><noframes>TITLE 29JUDICIAL PROCEDURE, CRIMINALCHAPTER 29-01GENERAL PROVISIONS29-01-01.How crimes prosecuted - Exceptions.Every public offense must beprosecuted by information or indictment unless it is one in which:1.A proceeding is had for the removal of a civil officer of the state or an officer of some<br>political subdivision thereof;2.There is a breach of military discipline arising in the militia, when in actual service,<br>and in the land and naval forces in time of war or public danger, or which this state<br>may keep, with the consent of Congress, in time of peace;3.The offense is a misdemeanor or an infraction; or4.Trial may be had in municipal court.29-01-02. Criminal action medium of trial and punishment. The proceeding by whicha party charged with a public offense is accused and brought to trial and punishment is known as<br>a criminal action.29-01-03. How prosecution entitled. A criminal action is prosecuted in the name of thestate of North Dakota as a party against the party charged with the offense.29-01-04. Affidavits need not be entitled. It is not necessary to entitle an affidavit ordeposition in an action whether taken before or after information or indictment or upon an appeal,<br>but if made without a title or with an erroneous title, it is as valid and effectual for every purpose<br>as if it were duly entitled, if it intelligibly refers to the proceeding, information, indictment, or<br>appeal in which it is made.29-01-05. Party defendant is party prosecuted. The party prosecuted in a criminalaction is designated in this code as the accused or as the defendant.29-01-06. Rights of defendant. In all criminal prosecutions the party accused has theright:1.To appear and defend in person and with counsel;2.To demand and be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation;3.To meet the witnesses against the party face to face;4.To have the process of the court to compel the attendance of witnesses in the<br>party's behalf; and5.To a speedy and public trial, and by an impartial jury in the county in which the<br>offense is alleged to have been committed or is triable, but subject to the right of the<br>state to have a change of the place of trial for any of the causes for which the party<br>accused may obtain the same.29-01-06.1. Rights of defendant - Exception. When the defendant is charged with acrime under a multiple count indictment or information as allowed by the North Dakota Rules of<br>Criminal Procedure, the defendant may be tried on all counts in any one of the counties in which<br>one of the offenses was committed.Page No. 129-01-06.2. Summoned person to report to sheriff. Whenever a person charged witha felony is not arrested but is summoned to appear in court, that person shall submit to the sheriff<br>for identification procedures at the time of the first court appearance.29-01-07. Only once prosecuted. No person can be twice put in jeopardy for the sameoffense, nor can any person be subjected to a second prosecution for a public offense for which<br>that person has once been prosecuted and convicted, or acquitted, or put in jeopardy, except as<br>is provided by law for new trials.29-01-08. Extent of restraint permissible. No person charged with a public offensecan be subjected before conviction to any more restraint than is necessary for the person's<br>detention to answer the charge.29-01-09. How conviction can be had. No person can be convicted of a crime or publicoffense except:1.By the verdict of a jury accepted and recorded by the court;2.Upon a plea of guilty;3.Upon a judgment against that person, that person's motion to quash having been<br>denied;4.Upon a judgment of a municipal court, or such other court as is or may be created<br>by law for cities in a case in which such judgment may be lawfully given without the<br>intervention of a jury; or5.By the judgment of a court, a jury having been waived.29-01-10. Where district courts held. Each district court may be held, for the trial of acriminal action, in an organized county.29-01-11.District court always open - Exception - Question of fact - Terms.Superseded by N.D.R.Crim.P., Rule 56.29-01-12. Decision of district court reviewable. The final decision of the district courtin a criminal action is reviewable and determinable by the supreme court according to law on an<br>appeal bringing up for review the record and proceedings therein.29-01-13.Definitions.As used in this title, unless the context or subject matterotherwise clearly requires:1.Superseded by N.D.R.Crim.P., Rule 3.2.An "indictment" is an accusation in writing presented by a grand jury to a competent<br>court charging a person with a crime or public offense.3.A "presentment" is an informal statement in writing by a grand jury representing to<br>the court that a public offense has been committed which is triable in the county or<br>subdivision, and that there is reasonable ground to believe that a particular individual<br>named or described has committed it.4.An "information" is an accusation in writing, in form and substance like an indictment<br>for the same offense, charging a person with a crime or public offense, signed and<br>verified by some person and presented to the district court and filed in the office of<br>the clerk of said court.5.A "magistrate" is an officer authorized by law to issue a warrant for the arrest of a<br>person charged with a crime or public offense.Page No. 26.The term "writing" includes printing and typewriting.7.The term "oath" includes an affirmation.8.The term "signature" includes a mark, when the person cannot write, the person's<br>name being written near it and the mark being witnessed by a person who writes the<br>witness's own name as a witness, except that if the paper is an affidavit or<br>deposition, or a paper issued before a judicial officer, the attestation of the officer is<br>sufficient.9.The term "county" includes an organized county, or an organized county and such<br>unorganized counties or other territory or parts of this state as may be attached by<br>law to such organized county for judicial purposes.29-01-14. Who are magistrates. The following officers are magistrates:1.The judges of the supreme court, with authority to act as such throughout the state.2.The judges of the district courts, with authority to act as such throughout the judicial<br>districts for which they respectively are elected.3.As limited by law directing the place of exercising their jurisdiction and authority,<br>magistrates appointed by the presiding judge of a judicial district, municipal judges,<br>and small claims court referees who are licensed to practice law and authorized by<br>the presiding judge of the judicial district in case of an emergency, each with<br>authority to act as magistrate throughout the county or the city for which the<br>magistrate is elected or appointed.29-01-15. Jurisdiction of municipal judges and small claims court referees. Anymunicipal judge may:1.Act as committing magistrate; provided, that this subsection does not apply to<br>municipal judges who are not attorneys currently licensed under chapter 27-11.2.Hear, try, and determine misdemeanors and infractions when jurisdiction has been<br>conferred by the Constitution of North Dakota and this and other laws.3.Adjudge and impose the punishment prescribed by law, upon conviction, in all cases<br>within the municipal judge's jurisdiction to hear, try, and determine.4.Grant temporary protection orders under the particular circumstances and for the<br>limited duration set forth in section 14-07.1-08.A small claims court referee authorized pursuant to subsection 3 of section 29-01-14 may act as<br>a committing magistrate. A magistrate appointed by the presiding judge of the judicial district has<br>the authority to act to the extent allowed by rules promulgated by the supreme court.29-01-16.When misdemeanor or infraction may be compromised.When adefendant is held to answer on a charge constituting a misdemeanor or infraction, for which a<br>person injured by the act constituting the offense has a remedy by a civil action, the offense may<br>be compromised as provided in section 29-01-17, except:1.If the offense was committed by or upon a judge of any court in this state, or in any<br>city in this state, or a peace officer, while in the execution of the duties of the<br>person's office;2.If the offense was committed with an intent to commit a felony; orPage No. 33.If the offense involves a crime of domestic violence as defined in section 14-07.1-01<br>or is a violation of section 12.1-20-05, 12.1-20-07, 12.1-20-12.1, or 12.1-20-12.2.29-01-17. Stay of proceedings upon compromise. If a party injured appears beforethe court in which a trial for the commission of a public offense is to be had, at any time before<br>the trial, and acknowledges that the party injured has received satisfaction for the injury, the<br>court, on payment of the costs incurred, may order all proceedings to be stayed upon the<br>prosecution and the defendant to be discharged therefrom, but in such a case the reasons for the<br>order must be set forth therein and entered on the minutes.29-01-18. Order to stay is a bar. The order authorized by section 29-01-17 is a bar toanother prosecution for the same offense.29-01-19. Compromise limited. A public offense may not be compromised, nor mayany proceeding for the prosecution or punishment thereof, upon a compromise, be stayed except<br>as is provided in sections 29-01-16 and 29-01-17 and with the consent of the state.29-01-20. Stolen property to be held by peace officer. When property alleged to havebeen stolen or embezzled comes into the custody of a peace officer, the peace officer shall hold<br>it subject to the order of the magistrate authorized by section 29-01-21 to direct the disposal<br>thereof.29-01-21. Magistrate to give order for delivery. On satisfactory proof of the title of theowner of the property, the magistrate before whom the complaint is laid, or who examines the<br>charge against the person accused of stealing or embezzling the property, may order it to be<br>delivered to the owner on the owner's paying the reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in<br>its preservation, to be certified by the magistrate. The order entitles the owner to demand and<br>receive the property.29-01-22. Delivery of stolen property by magistrate. If property stolen or embezzledcomes into the custody of a magistrate, it must be delivered to the owner on satisfactory proof of<br>the owner's title and on the owner's paying the necessary expenses incurred in its preservation,<br>to be certified by the magistrate.29-01-23.Court may order delivery of stolen property.If property stolen orembezzled has not been delivered to the owner, the court before which a trial is had for stealing<br>or embezzling it, on proof of the owner's title, may order it to be restored to the owner.29-01-24. Unclaimed stolen property - Delivery to county treasurer. If the propertystolen or embezzled is not claimed by the owner within six months from the conviction of a<br>person for stealing or embezzling it, the magistrate or officer having it in custody, on the payment<br>of the necessary expenses incurred in its preservation, shall deliver it to the county treasurer by<br>whom, if it is money, it must be paid into the county treasury, or if it is not money, it must be sold<br>and the proceeds paid into such treasury.29-01-25. Receipt to accused and clerk or magistrate. When money or other propertyis taken from a defendant arrested upon a charge of a public offense, the officer taking it at the<br>time shall give duplicate receipts therefor, specifying particularly the amount of the money, or the<br>kind of property taken, one of which receipts the officer shall deliver to the defendant, and the<br>other of which the officer shall file at once with the clerk of the court to which the complaint and<br>other papers in the case by law are required to be sent. When such property is taken by a police<br>officer of any incorporated city, the officer shall deliver one of the receipts to the defendant and<br>one, with the property, at once to the clerk or other person in charge of the police office in such<br>city, or, if there is no such clerk or other person, then to the magistrate before whom such<br>defendant may be taken for examination or trial.29-01-26. Duty of clerk or magistrate. The clerk, magistrate, or other person to whomproperty is delivered, as provided in section 29-01-25, shall record every amount of money and a<br>description of every article of property taken from each person arrested, attach a number to everyPage No. 4amount of money and every article of property, and make a corresponding entry thereof.<br>Sufficient compliance with this section is met if the entries are made in the docket of the<br>magistrate after the receipt and property are delivered to a magistrate, as provided in section<br>29-01-25.29-01-27.Indigent defendant - Attorney appointed - Compensation - Limitation.Repealed by S.L. 1967, ch. 259, <script type="application/ld+json" class="yoast-schema-graph">{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://statutes.laws.com/test/","url":"https://statutes.laws.com/test/","name":"State Codes and Statutes - Statutes","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://statutes.laws.com/#website"},"datePublished":"2015-03-10T03:31:37+00:00","dateModified":"2019-12-27T23:25:16+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https://statutes.laws.com/test/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https://statutes.laws.com/test/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https://statutes.laws.com/test/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://statutes.laws.com/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"State Codes and Statutes"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://statutes.laws.com/#website","url":"https://statutes.laws.com/","name":"Statutes","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://statutes.laws.com/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}</script>
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<a href='https://statutes.laws.com/'>Statutes</a> > <a href='https://statutes.laws.com/north-dakota'>North-dakota</a> > <a href='https://statutes.laws.com/north-dakota/t29'>T29</a> > <a href='https://statutes.laws.com/north-dakota/t29/t29c01'>T29c01</a><br><br><a href="https://law.justia.com/codes/north-dakota/2009/t29/pdf/t29c01.pdf">Download pdf</a><br><div id="embed_document" style="width:625px; height:815px; text-align:center;">Loading PDF...</div><script type="text/javascript"> var pdf_url = 'https://law.justia.com/codes/north-dakota/2009/t29/pdf/t29c01.pdf'; $(document).ready(function() { var embedwindow = $("#embed_document"); if ($.browser.msie){ embedwindow.html('<embed src="'+pdf_url+'" width="100%" height="100%"></embed>'); } else { embedwindow.html('<iframe style="width:100%; height:100%;" src="https://docs.google.com/gview?url='+window.escape(pdf_url)+'&embedded=true" frameborder="0"></iframe>'); } });</script><br><br><noframes>TITLE 29JUDICIAL PROCEDURE, CRIMINALCHAPTER 29-01GENERAL PROVISIONS29-01-01.How crimes prosecuted - Exceptions.Every public offense must beprosecuted by information or indictment unless it is one in which:1.A proceeding is had for the removal of a civil officer of the state or an officer of some<br>political subdivision thereof;2.There is a breach of military discipline arising in the militia, when in actual service,<br>and in the land and naval forces in time of war or public danger, or which this state<br>may keep, with the consent of Congress, in time of peace;3.The offense is a misdemeanor or an infraction; or4.Trial may be had in municipal court.29-01-02. Criminal action medium of trial and punishment. The proceeding by whicha party charged with a public offense is accused and brought to trial and punishment is known as<br>a criminal action.29-01-03. How prosecution entitled. A criminal action is prosecuted in the name of thestate of North Dakota as a party against the party charged with the offense.29-01-04. Affidavits need not be entitled. It is not necessary to entitle an affidavit ordeposition in an action whether taken before or after information or indictment or upon an appeal,<br>but if made without a title or with an erroneous title, it is as valid and effectual for every purpose<br>as if it were duly entitled, if it intelligibly refers to the proceeding, information, indictment, or<br>appeal in which it is made.29-01-05. Party defendant is party prosecuted. The party prosecuted in a criminalaction is designated in this code as the accused or as the defendant.29-01-06. Rights of defendant. In all criminal prosecutions the party accused has theright:1.To appear and defend in person and with counsel;2.To demand and be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation;3.To meet the witnesses against the party face to face;4.To have the process of the court to compel the attendance of witnesses in the<br>party's behalf; and5.To a speedy and public trial, and by an impartial jury in the county in which the<br>offense is alleged to have been committed or is triable, but subject to the right of the<br>state to have a change of the place of trial for any of the causes for which the party<br>accused may obtain the same.29-01-06.1. Rights of defendant - Exception. When the defendant is charged with acrime under a multiple count indictment or information as allowed by the North Dakota Rules of<br>Criminal Procedure, the defendant may be tried on all counts in any one of the counties in which<br>one of the offenses was committed.Page No. 129-01-06.2. Summoned person to report to sheriff. Whenever a person charged witha felony is not arrested but is summoned to appear in court, that person shall submit to the sheriff<br>for identification procedures at the time of the first court appearance.29-01-07. Only once prosecuted. No person can be twice put in jeopardy for the sameoffense, nor can any person be subjected to a second prosecution for a public offense for which<br>that person has once been prosecuted and convicted, or acquitted, or put in jeopardy, except as<br>is provided by law for new trials.29-01-08. Extent of restraint permissible. No person charged with a public offensecan be subjected before conviction to any more restraint than is necessary for the person's<br>detention to answer the charge.29-01-09. How conviction can be had. No person can be convicted of a crime or publicoffense except:1.By the verdict of a jury accepted and recorded by the court;2.Upon a plea of guilty;3.Upon a judgment against that person, that person's motion to quash having been<br>denied;4.Upon a judgment of a municipal court, or such other court as is or may be created<br>by law for cities in a case in which such judgment may be lawfully given without the<br>intervention of a jury; or5.By the judgment of a court, a jury having been waived.29-01-10. Where district courts held. Each district court may be held, for the trial of acriminal action, in an organized county.29-01-11.District court always open - Exception - Question of fact - Terms.Superseded by N.D.R.Crim.P., Rule 56.29-01-12. Decision of district court reviewable. The final decision of the district courtin a criminal action is reviewable and determinable by the supreme court according to law on an<br>appeal bringing up for review the record and proceedings therein.29-01-13.Definitions.As used in this title, unless the context or subject matterotherwise clearly requires:1.Superseded by N.D.R.Crim.P., Rule 3.2.An "indictment" is an accusation in writing presented by a grand jury to a competent<br>court charging a person with a crime or public offense.3.A "presentment" is an informal statement in writing by a grand jury representing to<br>the court that a public offense has been committed which is triable in the county or<br>subdivision, and that there is reasonable ground to believe that a particular individual<br>named or described has committed it.4.An "information" is an accusation in writing, in form and substance like an indictment<br>for the same offense, charging a person with a crime or public offense, signed and<br>verified by some person and presented to the district court and filed in the office of<br>the clerk of said court.5.A "magistrate" is an officer authorized by law to issue a warrant for the arrest of a<br>person charged with a crime or public offense.Page No. 26.The term "writing" includes printing and typewriting.7.The term "oath" includes an affirmation.8.The term "signature" includes a mark, when the person cannot write, the person's<br>name being written near it and the mark being witnessed by a person who writes the<br>witness's own name as a witness, except that if the paper is an affidavit or<br>deposition, or a paper issued before a judicial officer, the attestation of the officer is<br>sufficient.9.The term "county" includes an organized county, or an organized county and such<br>unorganized counties or other territory or parts of this state as may be attached by<br>law to such organized county for judicial purposes.29-01-14. Who are magistrates. The following officers are magistrates:1.The judges of the supreme court, with authority to act as such throughout the state.2.The judges of the district courts, with authority to act as such throughout the judicial<br>districts for which they respectively are elected.3.As limited by law directing the place of exercising their jurisdiction and authority,<br>magistrates appointed by the presiding judge of a judicial district, municipal judges,<br>and small claims court referees who are licensed to practice law and authorized by<br>the presiding judge of the judicial district in case of an emergency, each with<br>authority to act as magistrate throughout the county or the city for which the<br>magistrate is elected or appointed.29-01-15. Jurisdiction of municipal judges and small claims court referees. Anymunicipal judge may:1.Act as committing magistrate; provided, that this subsection does not apply to<br>municipal judges who are not attorneys currently licensed under chapter 27-11.2.Hear, try, and determine misdemeanors and infractions when jurisdiction has been<br>conferred by the Constitution of North Dakota and this and other laws.3.Adjudge and impose the punishment prescribed by law, upon conviction, in all cases<br>within the municipal judge's jurisdiction to hear, try, and determine.4.Grant temporary protection orders under the particular circumstances and for the<br>limited duration set forth in section 14-07.1-08.A small claims court referee authorized pursuant to subsection 3 of section 29-01-14 may act as<br>a committing magistrate. A magistrate appointed by the presiding judge of the judicial district has<br>the authority to act to the extent allowed by rules promulgated by the supreme court.29-01-16.When misdemeanor or infraction may be compromised.When adefendant is held to answer on a charge constituting a misdemeanor or infraction, for which a<br>person injured by the act constituting the offense has a remedy by a civil action, the offense may<br>be compromised as provided in section 29-01-17, except:1.If the offense was committed by or upon a judge of any court in this state, or in any<br>city in this state, or a peace officer, while in the execution of the duties of the<br>person's office;2.If the offense was committed with an intent to commit a felony; orPage No. 33.If the offense involves a crime of domestic violence as defined in section 14-07.1-01<br>or is a violation of section 12.1-20-05, 12.1-20-07, 12.1-20-12.1, or 12.1-20-12.2.29-01-17. Stay of proceedings upon compromise. If a party injured appears beforethe court in which a trial for the commission of a public offense is to be had, at any time before<br>the trial, and acknowledges that the party injured has received satisfaction for the injury, the<br>court, on payment of the costs incurred, may order all proceedings to be stayed upon the<br>prosecution and the defendant to be discharged therefrom, but in such a case the reasons for the<br>order must be set forth therein and entered on the minutes.29-01-18. Order to stay is a bar. The order authorized by section 29-01-17 is a bar toanother prosecution for the same offense.29-01-19. Compromise limited. A public offense may not be compromised, nor mayany proceeding for the prosecution or punishment thereof, upon a compromise, be stayed except<br>as is provided in sections 29-01-16 and 29-01-17 and with the consent of the state.29-01-20. Stolen property to be held by peace officer. When property alleged to havebeen stolen or embezzled comes into the custody of a peace officer, the peace officer shall hold<br>it subject to the order of the magistrate authorized by section 29-01-21 to direct the disposal<br>thereof.29-01-21. Magistrate to give order for delivery. On satisfactory proof of the title of theowner of the property, the magistrate before whom the complaint is laid, or who examines the<br>charge against the person accused of stealing or embezzling the property, may order it to be<br>delivered to the owner on the owner's paying the reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in<br>its preservation, to be certified by the magistrate. The order entitles the owner to demand and<br>receive the property.29-01-22. Delivery of stolen property by magistrate. If property stolen or embezzledcomes into the custody of a magistrate, it must be delivered to the owner on satisfactory proof of<br>the owner's title and on the owner's paying the necessary expenses incurred in its preservation,<br>to be certified by the magistrate.29-01-23.Court may order delivery of stolen property.If property stolen orembezzled has not been delivered to the owner, the court before which a trial is had for stealing<br>or embezzling it, on proof of the owner's title, may order it to be restored to the owner.29-01-24. Unclaimed stolen property - Delivery to county treasurer. If the propertystolen or embezzled is not claimed by the owner within six months from the conviction of a<br>person for stealing or embezzling it, the magistrate or officer having it in custody, on the payment<br>of the necessary expenses incurred in its preservation, shall deliver it to the county treasurer by<br>whom, if it is money, it must be paid into the county treasury, or if it is not money, it must be sold<br>and the proceeds paid into such treasury.29-01-25. Receipt to accused and clerk or magistrate. When money or other propertyis taken from a defendant arrested upon a charge of a public offense, the officer taking it at the<br>time shall give duplicate receipts therefor, specifying particularly the amount of the money, or the<br>kind of property taken, one of which receipts the officer shall deliver to the defendant, and the<br>other of which the officer shall file at once with the clerk of the court to which the complaint and<br>other papers in the case by law are required to be sent. When such property is taken by a police<br>officer of any incorporated city, the officer shall deliver one of the receipts to the defendant and<br>one, with the property, at once to the clerk or other person in charge of the police office in such<br>city, or, if there is no such clerk or other person, then to the magistrate before whom such<br>defendant may be taken for examination or trial.29-01-26. Duty of clerk or magistrate. The clerk, magistrate, or other person to whomproperty is delivered, as provided in section 29-01-25, shall record every amount of money and a<br>description of every article of property taken from each person arrested, attach a number to everyPage No. 4amount of money and every article of property, and make a corresponding entry thereof.<br>Sufficient compliance with this section is met if the entries are made in the docket of the<br>magistrate after the receipt and property are delivered to a magistrate, as provided in section<br>29-01-25.29-01-27.Indigent defendant - Attorney appointed - Compensation - Limitation.Repealed by S.L. 1967, ch. 259, <!-- END .shortcode-content -->
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