TITLE 19

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 35

DISMISSAL OF ACTION

19-3502.  Continuance for cause. If the defendant is not indicted or tried, as provided in the last section, and sufficient reason therefor is shown, the court may order the action to be continued to a date subsequent, and in the meantime may discharge the defendant from custody on his own undertaking of bail for his appearance to answer the charge at the time to which the action is continued.

History:

[(19-3502) Cr. Prac. 1864, sec. 582, p. 285; R.S., R.C., & C.L., sec. 8213; C.S., sec. 9177; I.C.A., sec. 19-3402; am. 1994, ch. 270, sec. 1, p. 833.]