United States v. Cadarr

Citations

• 197 U.S. 475
• 25 S. Ct. 487
• 49 L. Ed. 842
• 1905 U.S. LEXIS 1195

Syllabus

<p>Section 939 of the District of Columbia Code, providing that if any person charged with a criminal offense shall have been committed or held to bail to await the action of the grand jury, and the grand jury does not act within nine months the prosecution on the charge shall be deemed to be abandoned and the accused set free or his bail discharged, is not a statute of limitations, and does not repeal or affect the general statute of limitations in force in the District, § 1044 Rev. Stat., and a person, who in this case had not made any application under § 939 to be released from bail, may be held to answer upon an indictment found more than nine months after he was arrested and held to bail.</p> <p>It wo.Jd require clear and specif:-' language to indicate a legislative intent to bar the prosecution of all offenses for the failure of the grand jury to act within nine months of the arrest of the accused when the latter is at large under bail.</p>