Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Part II · Chapter 203 — Arrest and Commitment
§ 3047. Multiple warrants unnecessary
Statutory text
When two or more charges are made, or two or more indictments are found against any person, only one writ or warrant shall be necessary to commit him for trial. It shall be sufficient to state in the writ the name or general character of the offenses, or to refer to them only in general terms.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 80–645 · 62 Stat. 683
Enacted · 18 U.S.C. § 3047
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 816.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 816.)
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Notes
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 602 (R.S. § 1027).
Minor changes were made in phraseology.
Credits
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 816.)