Public Law 73–31

That section 1025 of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:

“Sec. 1025.

No indictment found and presented by a grand jury in any district or other court of the United States shall be deemed insufficient, nor shall the trial, judgment, or other proceeding thereon be affected by reason of any defect or imperfection in matter of form

Presence of clerical assistants of district attorney, etc.

only, which shall not tend to the prejudice of the defendant, or by reason of the attendance before the grand jury during the taking of testimony of one or more clerks or stenographers employed in a clerical capacity to assist the district attorney or other counsel for the Government who shall, in that connection, be deemed to be persons acting for and on behalf of the United States in an official capacity and function.”

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