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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 45 STAT. · November 17, 1921 · Chapter 6

Chapter 6. Amending section 1044 of the Revised Statutes of the United States as amended by the Act approved November 17, 1921 (chapter 124, Forty-second Statutes at Large, page 220)

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Chap. 6: Amending section 1044 of the Revised Statutes of the United States as amended by the Act approved November 17, 1921 (chapter 124, Forty-second Statutes at Large, page 220). Chapter 6 45 Stat. 51 1927-12-27 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public 51 Chapter 6.— An Act Amending section 1044 of the Revised Statutes of the United States as amended by the Act approved November 17, 1921 (chapter 124, Forty-second Statutes at Large, page 220).
December 27, 1927.[[S. 1397](/us/bill/70/s/1397).][[Public, No. 3](/us/pl/70/3).] *Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * United States courts.[R. S., sec. 1044, p. 193](/us/rs/s1044/p193), amended. That section 1044 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the Act approved November 17, 1921 (chapter 124, Forty-second Statutes at Large, page 220), be amended so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 1044. No person shall be prosecuted, tried, or punished forCriminal cases. No trial, etc., unless indictment found, etc., within three years.Vol. 42, p. 220, amended.[R. S., sec. 1046, p. 193](/us/rs/s1046/p193). any offense, not capital, except as provided in section 1046, unless the indictment is found, or the information is instituted, within three years next after such offense shall have been committed: *Provided, *That nothing herein contained shall apply to any offense*Proviso.* Not applicable if indictment heretofore found, etc. for which an indictment has been heretofore found or an information instituted, or to any proceedings under any such indictment or information.
” " Approved, December 27, 1927.
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