Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 8 — Summary Trials for Certain Offenses Against Navigation Laws
§ 393. Amendments of complaint and adjournments
Statutory text
It shall be lawful for the court to allow the United States attorney to amend his statement of complaint at any stage of the proceedings, before verdict, if, in the opinion of the court, such amendment will work no injustice to the accused; and if it appears to the court that the accused is unprepared to meet the charge as amended, and that an adjournment of the cause will promote the ends of justice, such adjournment shall be made, until a further day, to be fixed by the court.
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.
R.S. § 4302
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 393
R.S. § 4302
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
R.S. § 4302
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 4302 derived from act June 11, 1864, ch. 121, § 6, 13 Stat. 125.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Act , eff. , substituted “United States attorney” for “district attorney”. See section 541 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, and Historical and Revision Notes set out thereunder.
Credits
1948 · 2 acts
- R.S. § 4302
- 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 1, 62 Stat. 909.
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(R.S. § 4302; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 1, 62 Stat. 909.)