Missouri
Missouri Revised Statutes — Criminal Procedure (Ch. 544–548)
294 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 544.010 — Magistrate defined
- § 544.020 — Issuance of warrant upon complaint
- § 544.030 — Issuance of warrants by associate circuit judge
- § 544.040 — Bail, associate circuit judge may grant, when
- § 544.045 — License to operate motor vehicle may be deposited in lieu of bail
- § 544.046 — Compact
- § 544.050 — Recognizances
- § 544.060 — Issuance of warrants by clerk upon indictments
- § 544.070 — Issuance of process
- § 544.080 — Issuance of warrant to sheriff
- § 544.090 — Warrants, where executed
- § 544.100 — Arrest in another county
- § 544.110 — Escape to another county when guilty of felony
- § 544.120 — Attempted escape of felon, officers to pursue
- § 544.130 — Attempted escape, proceeding after arrest
- § 544.145 — Governor may offer reward for escaped felon
- § 544.150 — Reward by county commission
- § 544.155 — Uniform fresh pursuit law
- § 544.157 — Law enforcement officers, conservation agents, capitol police, college or university police officers, and park rangers, arrest powers
- § 544.160 — Escaped prisoner may be retaken after term expires
- § 544.170 — Twenty hours detention on arrest without warrant
- § 544.180 — Arrest
- § 544.193 — Strip searches prohibited, when
- § 544.195 — Rights and remedies of person wronged
- § 544.197 — Sections 544.193 to 544.197 not applicable, when
- § 544.200 — Officer may break open doors
- § 544.210 — Arrests, when
- § 544.216 — Powers of arrest, arrest without warrant on suspicion persons violating any law of state including infractions, misdemeanors and ordinances, exception
- § 544.218 — Arrest without warrant, lawful, when
- § 544.220 — Conveyance of prisoner through another county
- § 544.230 — Officer not subject to arrest
- § 544.240 — Duty of jailer
- § 544.250 — Preliminary hearing, when required
- § 544.260 — Arrest of person, where tried
- § 544.270 — Procedure before associate circuit judge
- § 544.275 — State correctional facilities may be used for certain civil or criminal proceedings not requiring a jury
- § 544.280 — Trial, how conducted
- § 544.290 — Disqualification of associate circuit judge
- § 544.300 — Proceedings in case of disqualification
- § 544.310 — Associate circuit judge may call associate
- § 544.320 — Adjournment of hearing by associate circuit judge
- § 544.330 — Failure to appear under recognizance
- § 544.340 — Commitment of party, when
- § 544.350 — Complaint to be read, time given for advice
- § 544.360 — Exclusion of witnesses from examination
- § 544.370 — Homicide, written evidence
- § 544.376 — Crime laboratory reports, evidence as to test results, procedure
- § 544.380 — Examination of prisoner and his witnesses
- § 544.390 — Examination and recognizance, certified, when
- § 544.400 — Failure of associate circuit judge to discharge duty
- § 544.410 — Discharge, when ordered
- § 544.420 — Recognizance, when required
- § 544.430 — Who may be bound by recognizance
- § 544.440 — Commitment of witnesses
- § 544.453 — Bail or conditions of release, factors to consider
- § 544.455 — Release of person charged, when
- § 544.456 — Sam Pratt's Law
- § 544.457 — Bail, amount of, information which may be considered
- § 544.470 — Commitment of individual, when
- § 544.472 — Persons confined to jail, verification of lawful immigration status required
- § 544.490 — What courts may accept recognizance
- § 544.500 — Recognizance, disposition of
- § 544.510 — Bail, when taken other than by court
- § 544.520 — Name of prosecutor returned with bail bond
- § 544.530 — Bond or recognizance, by whom taken
- § 544.540 — Court to fix conditions for release, when
- § 544.550 — Recognizances, how taken
- § 544.560 — Sheriff may set conditions for release, when
- § 544.570 — Recognizances returned to clerk
- § 544.575 — No proceeding upon a recognizance defeated for defects
- § 544.580 — Qualification of sureties
- § 544.590 — When security deemed sufficient
- § 544.600 — Surrender of principal, how made
- § 544.610 — Discharge of bailor's liability, how
- § 544.620 — What deemed a surrender
- § 544.630 — Other bail
- § 544.640 — Recognizance forfeited, when
- § 544.650 — Writ of scire facias, how served
- § 544.660 — Writs of scire facias, service construed
- § 544.665 — Failure to appear, penalty
- § 544.671 — Certain defendants not entitled to bail for certain offenses
- § 544.676 — Court may deny bail upon showing that defendant poses danger to victim, witness, or community
- § 545.010 — Felonies and misdemeanors may be prosecuted by indictment or information, exceptions
- § 545.015 — Definitions
- § 545.020 — Recovery of fine or forfeiture, how
- § 545.030 — Indictments and informations, when valid
- § 545.040 — Indictments signed by whom
- § 545.050 — Name of prosecutor on indictment, when
- § 545.060 — Indictment to have name of prosecutor
- § 545.070 — Names of witnesses must be affixed to indictment
- § 545.080 — Indictments, when not to be made public
- § 545.090 — Judges and others forbidden to disclose finding of indictment
- § 545.100 — Officer may make disclosure, when
- § 545.110 — Second indictment suspends first, when
- § 545.130 — Different degrees of same offense may be incorporated
- § 545.140 — Two or more persons and offenses may be charged in same indictment, when
- § 545.150 — Indictments in relation to property belonging to several owners
- § 545.160 — Venue, how stated
- § 545.170 — Intent to injure or defraud, how charged
- § 545.190 — Identification of counterfeiting equipment
- § 545.200 — Instruments, how described
- § 545.210 — Money or note, how described
- § 545.220 — Demurrer or motion to quash indictment must specify grounds
- § 545.230 — Indictment by wrong name
- § 545.240 — Informations
- § 545.250 — Who may make affidavit
- § 545.260 — Lost affidavit, how replaced
- § 545.270 — Form of information
- § 545.280 — Prosecuting witness, who deemed
- § 545.290 — Statute of jeofails applicable to proceedings by information
- § 545.300 — Informations
- § 545.310 — Issuance of warrant
- § 545.320 — Issuance of subpoenas for state witnesses
- § 545.330 — Issuance of subpoenas for defense witnesses
- § 545.340 — Disobedience to subpoena, how punished
- § 545.350 — Tender of fees not necessary
- § 545.360 — Law governing witnesses in civil cases to apply
- § 545.370 — Witness to attend until end of case
- § 545.380 — Defense witnesses
- § 545.390 — Depositions to be taken and read as in civil cases
- § 545.400 — Conditional examination of witnesses
- § 545.410 — Duty of prosecuting attorney in taking depositions
- § 545.415 — Criminal cases, prosecutors and circuit attorneys may take depositions of any person, procedure
- § 545.420 — Indictment against judge to be removed to another circuit
- § 545.430 — Change of venue may be granted defendant
- § 545.440 — Change of venue in counties where court held at more than one place
- § 545.450 — When case may be removed to another circuit
- § 545.460 — Removal to be made on application of defendant
- § 545.470 — Application for change of venue, when made
- § 545.473 — Cole County, change of venue, procedure
- § 545.480 — Additional affidavit, when made
- § 545.490 — Petition for change of venue must be proved and may be rebutted
- § 545.500 — Order for removal shall specify what
- § 545.510 — Order for removal, where entered
- § 545.520 — Recognizance to be given
- § 545.530 — Who may take recognizance
- § 545.540 — Order for removal void, unless bail given
- § 545.550 — Defendant in custody, to be removed, when
- § 545.560 — Duty of sheriff
- § 545.570 — In case of removal, transcript of record to be made
- § 545.580 — Transcript to be filed
- § 545.590 — Lost transcript may be replaced
- § 545.600 — Witnesses to attend trial in cases of removal
- § 545.610 — In case of removal, when notice to be given
- § 545.620 — Costs, how taxed and paid
- § 545.630 — Clerk, when liable to civil action
- § 545.640 — Change of venue for one not to affect other defendants
- § 545.650 — Change of venue and disqualification of judges in multiple-judge circuits
- § 545.660 — When judge deemed incompetent to try case
- § 545.690 — Another circuit judge may sit, when
- § 545.700 — Adjourned term held, when
- § 545.710 — Continuances, when and how granted
- § 545.720 — Contents of affidavit
- § 545.730 — Continuances on behalf of state, how obtained
- § 545.740 — Witnesses to enter into recognizance, when
- § 545.780 — Speedy trial, when
- § 545.790 — Cause continued, when
- § 545.800 — Copy of indictment or information furnished accused on request
- § 545.810 — Defendant granted reasonable time to plead
- § 545.820 — Court shall assign prisoner counsel, when
- § 545.830 — Dilatory pleas, when entertained
- § 545.840 — Matters pleaded occurring in another county
- § 545.850 — Special term of court
- § 545.860 — If prisoner bailed, no special term
- § 545.870 — Prosecuting attorney to be notified, when
- § 545.880 — Joint trials, when
- § 545.890 — Defendant imprisoned
- § 545.900 — Defendant on bail
- § 545.910 — When state not entitled to further continuance
- § 545.920 — When defendant not entitled to discharge
- § 545.930 — Endorsement or signature of pleadings in criminal cases
- § 545.940 — Defendant may be tested for various serious infectious or communicable diseases, when
- § 545.950 — Child victim of sexual offense, video and aural recordings and photographs, defendant not to copy or distribute without court order
- § 546.010 — Proceedings upon information, how conducted
- § 546.020 — Plea of not guilty, not formally tendered
- § 546.030 — Prisoner must be present in court, when
- § 546.040 — Issues of fact to be tried by jury
- § 546.050 — Misdemeanors may be tried by court
- § 546.060 — Practice in civil case to apply, when
- § 546.070 — Order of trial
- § 546.080 — Variance between charge and proof
- § 546.090 — Court may amend record, when
- § 546.095 — Offense not cognizable before associate circuit judge
- § 546.250 — Person injured may testify
- § 546.260 — Defendant may testify in own behalf
- § 546.262 — Domestic assault, victim and victim's family not to be compelled to testify or disclose certain information
- § 546.263 — Domestic assault, victim may testify by video conference
- § 546.265 — Criminal activity reporting to crime stoppers organization, privileged communication not subject to disclosure
- § 546.270 — Failure to testify not to prejudice defendant
- § 546.280 — Defendant may be discharged to testify for state
- § 546.300 — Existence of corporation, how proved
- § 546.360 — Defense of former jeopardy may be proved, when
- § 546.370 — Exceptions may be taken as in civil cases
- § 546.380 — Court not to charge, but may instruct jury
- § 546.390 — Verdict of jury, how rendered
- § 546.400 — Verdict must show degree of guilt
- § 546.540 — Confinement of insane persons, costs paid, how
- § 546.550 — Presence of prisoner at rendition of judgment
- § 546.560 — Presence of prisoner in court
- § 546.570 — Hearing before sentence