773.8 Inquisition of jury; form.

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Sec. 8.

The inquisition issued by the jury may be in the following form:

County of .................... , ss.

An inquisition taken at ........... , in this county, on the .......... day of ............ , before ............., a magistrate, by the oaths of the jurors whose names are subscribed, who being sworn to inquire on behalf of the people of this state, when, in what manner, and by what means .................... (or, the unknown deceased person) came to his or her death, upon their oaths, say (insert when, where, in what manner, and by what means, persons, weapons, or instruments the deceased was killed or came to his or her death.) In testimony of which the magistrate and the jurors of this inquest have signed their names.

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History: 1927, Act 175, Eff. Sept. 5, 1927 ;-- CL 1929, 17410 ;-- CL 1948, 773.8 ;-- Am. 1980, Act 506, Imd. Eff. Jan. 22, 1981

Former Law: See section 8 of Ch. 167 of R.S. 1846, being CL 1857, § 6096; CL 1871, § 7977; How., § 9590; CL 1897, § 11825; and CL 1915, § 15652.