Introductory Text
1.Interpretation
2.Indictment forms
3.Procedure on resignation, death, or removal of Lord Advocate
4.INDICTMENTS. Naming of accused
5.Nomen juris unnecessary
6.Case of two or more persons charged
7.Guilty, actor or art and part, unnecessary
8.Qualifying words to be implied
9.Quotation of statutes unnecessary
10.Latitude as to time and place
11.Latitude as to quantities, persons, things, or modes
12.Description of buildings, goods, money, or other property
13.Description of persons, goods, &c
14."Money" to include coin, bank notes, and post office orders
15.Setting forth documents unnecessary
16.Petitions for warrants
17.Prisoners before examination to have access to law agent
18.Bail competent before committal
19.Declarations, convictions, &c, not averred
20."All which or part" implied
21.Indictments, &c. written or printed or partly so
22.Procedure in case of crime in different counties
23.Warrants for citation
24.Service
25.Two diets
26.Notice for first diet
27.Record copy indictment and list of witnesses
28.FIRST DIET—Sheriff Court case
29.High Court case
30.Procurator of place of second diet may defend at both diets
31.Procedure where accused desires to plead guilty
32.Interlocutor of relevancy unnecessary
33.Certain objections only competent at first diet
34.Where sentence delayed original warrant of commitment stands
35.Description of witnesses
36.Written notice of special defence
37.Accused entitled to see productions
38.Notice of jury list
39.Sufficient jurors only to be summoned
40.SECOND DIET—Transcript of proceedings at first diet
41.Review at second diet in High Court
42.Procedure where trial does not take place
43.Prevention of delay in trials
44.High Court of Justiciary
45.Salaries of judges of High Court
46.Sittings of High Court
47.Area from which jury summoned
48.Sitting dispensed with
49.Adjournment of second diets
50.Sitting transferred where few cases
51.Trials in adjacent county
52.Postponement on old warrant where diet deserted
53.Objections to witnesses
54.Clerk to state charge, and swear jury
55.Seclusion of jury
56.Capital cases
57.Form of sentence
58.Reset
59.Robbery, &c. to include reset and theft to include breach of trust, &c
60.Procedure where more than one crime charged
61.Attempt at crime
62.Statutory offences which are offences at common law
63.Previous convictions of dishonesty
64.Previous convictions of violence
65.Previous convictions of lewd conduct, &c
66.Extract convictions to be received unless impugned
67.Proving and recording previous convictions
68.Superfluous particulars as to identity
69.Declarations
70.Variance between indictment and evidence
71.Certain sections to apply to summary complaints
72.High Court proceedings final
73.Circuit clerks of Justiciary
74.Repeal
75.Act not to apply to treason
76.Power to High Court to pass Acts of Adjournal
77.Commencement of Act
78.Short title
SCHEDULES.
SCHEDULE A
EXAMPLES OF INDICTMENTS.
SCHEDULE B
WARRANT FOR CITATION OF PERSONS ACCUSED, WITNESSES, AND JURORS.
SCHEDULE C
EXECUTION OF CITATION.
SCHEDULE D
SCHEDULE E
SCHEDULE F
SCHEDULE G
SCHEDULE H
SCHEDULE I
SCHEDULE K
SCHEDULE L
SCHEDULE M
SCHEDULE N
SCHEDULE O
SCHEDULE P