...[US Comp. St. 1901, p. 720], which allows the joinder in one indictment of charges against a person 'for two or more acts or transactions of the same class of crimes or offenses,' and the consolidation of two or more indictments found in such cases. Under the present statute three...

...from that charged in the other counts. The word "count" here is used as synonymous with indictment. "Instead of having several indictments, the whole may be joined in one indictment in several counts;" that is, each count in legal intendment is equivalent to an indictment, and instead...

...[2] Two points not raised in the Booth Case are here presented. The clause in section 1024 reads : "When there are several charges against any person for the same act or transaction," etc. It is contended that this applies to charges against a single defendant not against several defendants;...

...in many of the states and in England, modify the common-law rule so far as, when the statute defines two or more acts or transactions of the same class of crimes or offenses, to allow them to be joined in the same indictment, but each offense to be charged in separate counts....

...indictment is stated in section 1024 of the Revised Statutes (Сотр. St. § 1690), which provides that, when there are several charges against any person...indictments the whole may be joined in one indictment on separate counts, and if two or more indictments are found in such cases the court may order them...

...mentioned should be amended to read (like § 1024, Rev. Stat. US Сотр. Stat. 1901, p. 1022) as follows: "When there are several charges against any person...transactions of the same class of crimes or offenses, winch may be properly joined, instead of having several indictments the whole may be joined in one...

...classes of crimes or offenses, as referred to in RS § 1024, where it is provided that several charges for two or more acts or transactions of the same class of crimes or offenses may be properly joined in separate counts. The distinction between misdemeanors and felonies at common...

...felony charges against one or more persons for the same act or transaction, or for two or more actions or transactions connected together, or for two or...of the same class of crimes or offenses which may he properly joined, the whole may he joined in one indictment in separate counts, charging separate...

...(2) for two or more acts or transactions connected tof22) 2 Popular Tribunals. 747. gether, or (3) for two or more acts or transactions of the same class of crimes or offenses, as in the Federal Courts. 4. Short form simplified indictments merely charging defendant with the commission...

...CCA 9, cases cited p. 339). Directing the Government to elect. — Under $1024, RS, several charges for two or more acts or transactions of the same class of crimes or offenses may be properly joined in separate counts. Before the enactment of this statute, it had been uniformly...