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AR Code § 16-84-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally|Chapter 84 - Bail Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-84-106. Attorneys and officers not to be sureties

 No attorney, solicitor, or counselor at law or in equity, clerk, sheriff, chief of police, law enforcement officer, or other person concerned in the execution of any process, shall become a personal guarantor or surety in any criminal proceeding.
AR Code § 16-84-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally|Chapter 84 - Bail Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-84-107. Form of bond

 (a) The undertaking of the surety, other than by a professional bail bondsman, shall be substantially as follows:  (b) If the surety is a professional bail bondsman, the undertaking of the surety shall be in a form prescribed by the rules of the Professional Bail Bond Company and Professional Bail Bondsman Licensing Board.    “A.B., being in custody, charged with the offense of (naming or briefly describing it), and being admitted to bail in the sum of dollars, we C.D., of (stating his place of residence), and E.F., of (stating his place of residence), hereby undertake that the above named A.B. shall appear in the court on the day of its term to answer said charge, and shall at all times render himself or herself amenable to the orders and process of said court in prosecution of said charge, and, if convicted, shall render himself in execution thereof; or if he fail to perform either of these conditions, that we will pay to the appropriate court the sum of dollars.”   Click to view form.
AR Code § 16-84-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally|Chapter 84 - Bail Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-84-108. Bonds not void for want of form

 No prosecution, appeal, nonresident, or attachment bond, nor any other statutory bonds of any party, plaintiff, or defendant in any court of justice, in this state, nor any recognizance in any criminal cause in this state, shall be declared null and void for the want of form if the intent of the bond can be plainly deduced from the body of the bond or recognizance.
AR Code § 16-84-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally|Chapter 84 - Bail Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-84-109. Irregularity of bail bond or recognizance

 (a) No bail bond or recognizance shall be deemed to be invalid by:  (1) Reason of any variance between its stipulations and the provisions of this chapter;  (2) The failure of the judge or magistrate or officer to transmit or deliver the bail bond or recognizance at the times provided in this subchapter; or  (3) Any other irregularity so that it is made to appear that the defendant was:  (A) Legally in custody;  (B)  (i) Charged with the public offense; and  (ii) Discharged from the offense by reason of the giving of the bond or recognizance; and    (C) Can be ascertained from the bond or recognizance, that the surety undertook that the defendant should appear before a judge or magistrate for the trial of the offense.      (b)  (1) If no day is fixed for the appearance, or an impossible day, or a day in vacation, the bond or recognizance, if for his or her appearance before a judge or magistrate, shall be considered as binding the defendant so to appear and surrender himself or herself into custody for an examination of the charge in twenty (20) days from the time of his or her giving the bond or recognizance.  (2) The bond or recognizance, if for his or her appearance for trial in court, shall be considered as binding the defendant to appear and surrender himself or herself into custody on the first day of the next term of the court which shall commence more than ten (10) days after the giving of the bond or recognizance.
AR Code § 16-84-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally|Chapter 84 - Bail Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-84-110. Bail before conviction

 Before conviction, the defendant may be admitted to bail for his or her appearance:   (1) Before a judge or magistrate for an examination of the charge, where the offense charged is a misdemeanor;  (2) In the court to which he or she is sent for trial;  (3) To answer an indictment which has been found against him or her; or  (4) In a criminal action.
AR Code § 16-84-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally|Chapter 84 - Bail Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-84-111. Bail during trial

 (a) During the trial of an indictment for a misdemeanor, the defendant may remain on bail.  (b) However, for a felony when a defendant is upon bail, he or she may remain upon bail or be kept in actual custody as the court may direct. If the defendant remains on bail, any surety's liability shall be exonerated unless the surety has agreed to remain as the surety until final judgment is rendered.
AR Code § 16-84-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally|Chapter 84 - Bail Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-84-112. Entering of recognizance on court minutes

 All recognizances required or authorized to be taken in any criminal proceeding, in open court, by any court of record shall be entered on the minutes of the court, and the substance thereof shall be read to the person recognized.
AR Code § 16-84-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally|Chapter 84 - Bail Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-84-113. Application for bail

 (a) If the defendant is committed to jail and the application for bail is made to a judge or magistrate during vacation, it must be by written petition signed by the defendant or his or her counsel briefly stating the offense for which he or she is committed and naming the persons offered as surety.  (b) In all other cases, the application may be made orally to the judge or magistrate.
AR Code § 16-84-114 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally|Chapter 84 - Bail Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-84-114. Surrender of defendant

 (a)  (1) At any time before the forfeiture of their bond, the surety may surrender the defendant or the defendant may surrender himself or herself to the jailer of the county in which the offense was committed.  (2) However, the surrender must be accompanied by a certified copy of the bail bond to be delivered to the jailer, who must detain the defendant in custody thereon as upon a commitment and give a written acknowledgment of the surrender.  (3) The surety shall thereupon be exonerated.    (b)  (1) For the purpose of surrendering the defendant, the surety may obtain from the officer having in his or her custody the bail bond or recognizance a certified copy thereof, and thereupon at any place in the state may arrest the defendant.  (2) No person other than an Arkansas-licensed bail bond agent, an Arkansas-licensed private investigator, a certified law enforcement officer, or a person acting under the direct supervision of an Arkansas-licensed bail bond agent shall be authorized to apprehend, detain, or arrest a defendant on a bail bond, wherever issued, unless that person is licensed as a bail bond agent by the state where the bail bond was written.  (3) No person shall represent himself or herself to be a bail enforcement agent, bounty hunter, or similar title in this state.  (4) Any bail bond agent attempting to apprehend a defendant shall notify the local law enforcement agency or agencies of his or her presence and provide the local law enforcement agency or agencies with the defendant's name, charges, and suspected location.  (5) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a Class D felony.    (c) The surety may arrest the defendant without the certified copy.  (d) If the surety has good cause for surrendering the defendant and has complied with the provisions of this section in surrendering the defendant, there shall be no requirement that the surety return part or all of the premium paid for the bail bond.
AR Code § 16-84-115 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally|Chapter 84 - Bail Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-84-115. Deposit of money in lieu of bail

 Notwithstanding any rule of criminal procedure to the contrary:   (1)  (A) Whenever the defendant is admitted to bail in a specified sum, he or she may deposit the sum with the proper city or county official in the city or county in which the trial is directed to be had and take from the official a receipt of the deposit, upon delivering which to the officer in whose custody he or she is, he or she shall be discharged.  (B) After bail has been taken, a deposit may in like manner be made of the sum mentioned in the bail bond, which shall exonerate the surety.    (2) Where money is deposited, the proper city or county official shall hold and pay the money according to the orders of the court having jurisdiction to try the offense, and he or she and his or her sureties shall be liable for the money on their official bond.  (3) Upon judgment being rendered against a defendant for fine and costs, the court rendering judgment may order any money deposited agreeably to this section to be applied to the payment thereof. This subdivision (a)(3) shall not apply to a bail bond of a bail bondsman.  (4) The mayor shall designate the city official or officials who may accept a deposit of money in lieu of bail, and the county judge shall designate the county official or officials authorized to accept a deposit of money in lieu of bail.
AR Code § 16-84-116 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally|Chapter 84 - Bail Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-84-116. Recommitment after bail or deposit of money

 (a) The court in which a prosecution for a public offense is pending may, by an order, direct the defendant to be arrested and committed to jail until legally discharged, after he or she has given bail, or deposited money in lieu thereof, in the following cases:  (1) When by having failed to appear, a forfeiture of bail or of the money deposited has been incurred;  (2) When the court is satisfied that his or her surety, or either of them, is dead, or insufficient, or has moved from the state;  (3) Upon an indictment's being found for an offense not bailable.    (b) Upon the order being made, the clerk shall issue process for the arrest and recommitment of the defendant. If the order is made on account of either of the cases mentioned in subdivision (a)(1) or (a)(2) of this section, the defendant shall be admitted to bail as upon his or her first commitment, in a sum to be fixed by the court and named in the process for his or her arrest.
AR Code § 16-84-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally|Chapter 84 - Bail Generally|Subchapter 2 - Forfeiture|§ 16-84-202. Disposition of deposit

 (a) Where money is deposited in lieu of bail with a city official, after the forfeiture and final judgment of the court, the city official shall make settlement with the city treasurer who shall deposit the funds to the credit of the city general fund.  (b) Where money is deposited in lieu of bail with a county official, after the forfeiture and final adjournment of the court, the county official shall make settlement with the county treasurer who shall deposit the funds to the credit of the county general fund.
AR Code § 16-84-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally|Chapter 84 - Bail Generally|Subchapter 2 - Forfeiture|§ 16-84-203. Certain absences excused

 (a) No forfeiture of any appearance or bail bond shall be rendered in any case where a sworn statement of a licensed court-appointed physician is furnished the court showing that the principal in the bond is prevented from attending by some physical or mental disability or where a sworn affidavit of the jailer, warden, or other responsible officer of a jail or correctional facility in which the principal is being detained shall be furnished to the court, or a sworn affidavit of any officer in charge is furnished to the court showing that the principal in the bond is prevented from attending due to the fact that he or she is being detained by a force claiming to act under the authority of the federal government that neither the state nor the surety could control.  (b) The appearance or bail bond shall remain in full force and effect until the principal is physically or mentally able to appear or until a detainer against the principal is filed with the detaining authority.
AR Code § 16-85-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally|Chapter 85 - Pretrial Proceedings|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-85-101. Right to attorney, physician, and phone calls

 (a) While confined and awaiting trial in any prison or jail in this state, no prisoner shall be denied the right to:  (1) Consult an attorney of the prisoner's own choosing;  (2) Call a physician of the prisoner's own choosing if in need of one; or  (3) Place free telephone calls to a bondsperson if the calls are local calls.    (b) Any officer or other person having charge or supervision of any prisoner in the state who refuses to permit the prisoner to consult an attorney of the prisoner's own choosing, call a physician of the prisoner's own choosing, or place free telephone calls to a bondsperson if the calls are local shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
AR Code § 16-85-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally|Chapter 85 - Pretrial Proceedings|Subchapter 3 - Information and Bill of Particulars|§ 16-85-301. Bill of particulars

 (a) The bill of particulars required by law in criminal cases shall state the action relied upon by the state in sufficient detail as required by an indictment prior to March 1, 1937, that is, with sufficient certainty to apprise the defendant of the specific crime with which charged, in order to enable him or her to prepare his or her defense.  (b) A supplemental bill of particulars may be required upon order of the trial court if the bill of particulars filed by the prosecuting attorney is not sufficiently definite to apprise the defendant of the specific crime with which he or she is charged.  (c) When a bill of particulars is filed with the clerk, a copy of it shall be furnished to the defendant upon his or her request.
AR Code § 16-85-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally|Chapter 85 - Pretrial Proceedings|Subchapter 3 - Information and Bill of Particulars|§ 16-85-302. Information

 Whenever a defendant has been held to answer at a preliminary examination to await the action of the grand jury or has been held for the circuit court, the prosecuting attorney may proceed to file information in the circuit court and to trial of the case, provided the prosecuting attorney, with the consent of the circuit court, may nolle prosequi any indictment or information pending in the court.
AR Code § 16-85-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally|Chapter 85 - Pretrial Proceedings|Subchapter 4 - Indictment Generally|§ 16-85-401. Definition

 As used in this code, unless the context otherwise requires, an “indictment” is an accusation in writing, found and presented by a grand jury to the court in which they are impaneled, charging a person with the commission of a public offense.
AR Code § 16-85-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally|Chapter 85 - Pretrial Proceedings|Subchapter 4 - Indictment Generally|§ 16-85-402. Finding of indictment by jurors

 (a) The concurrence of twelve (12) grand jurors is required to find an indictment.  (b) When so found, it must be endorsed “a true bill” and the endorsement signed by the foreman.  (c) When an indictment is found, the names of all witnesses who were examined must be written at the foot of or on the indictment.  (d) The indictment must:  (1) Be presented by the foreman of the grand jury to the court; and  (2)  (A) Be filed with the clerk; and  (B) Remain in his or her office as a public record.
AR Code § 16-85-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally|Chapter 85 - Pretrial Proceedings|Subchapter 4 - Indictment Generally|§ 16-85-403. Contents

 (a)  (1) The language of the indictment must be certain as to the title of the prosecution, the name of the court in which the indictment is presented, and the name of the parties.  (2) Upon request of the defendant, the state shall file a bill of particulars setting out the act or acts upon which it relies for conviction.    (b) An indictment may be substantially in the following form:  (c) The indictment must be direct and certain as regards:  (1) The party charged;  (2) The offense or offenses charged;  (3) The county in which the offense or offenses were committed; and  (4) The particular circumstances of the offense or offenses charged where they are necessary to constitute a complete offense or offenses.      “The State of Arkansas, vs. John Doe. In the Pulaski Circuit Court. The grand jury of Pulaski County, in the name and by the authority of the State of Arkansas, accuse John Doe of the crime of murder in the first degree (or other crime, as the case may be), committed as follows: The said John Doe, on January 1, 1936, in Pulaski County, did murder Richard Roe, against the peace and dignity of the State of Arkansas.”   Click to view form.
AR Code § 16-85-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally|Chapter 85 - Pretrial Proceedings|Subchapter 4 - Indictment Generally|§ 16-85-405. Sufficiency and errors

 (a)  (1) The indictment is sufficient if it can be understood from the indictment:  (A) That it was found by a grand jury of a county, impaneled in a court having authority to receive the indictment;  (B) That the offense was committed within the jurisdiction of the court and at some time prior to the time of finding the indictment; and  (C) That the act or omission charged as the offense is stated with such a degree of certainty so as to satisfy due process of law.    (2) No indictment is insufficient, nor can the trial, judgment, or other proceeding thereon be affected, by reason of any defect which does not prejudice the substantial rights of the defendant.    (b) An error as to the name of the defendant shall not vitiate the indictment or proceedings on the indictment, and if the defendant's true name is discovered at any time before execution of the indictment, an entry shall be made on the docket of the court of the defendant's true name, referring to the fact of the defendant's being indicted by the name mentioned in the indictment, and the subsequent proceedings shall be in the defendant's true name.  (c) The statement in the indictment as to the time at which the offense was committed is not material except as a statement that it was committed before the time of finding the indictment, except where the time is a material ingredient in the offense.  (d) The words used in a statute to define an offense need not be strictly pursued in an indictment, but other words conveying the same meaning may be used.
AR Code § 16-85-406 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally|Chapter 85 - Pretrial Proceedings|Subchapter 4 - Indictment Generally|§ 16-85-406. Construction of words

 The words used in an indictment must be construed according to their usual acceptance in common language, except words and phrases defined by law, which are to be construed according to their legal meaning.
AR Code § 16-85-407 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally|Chapter 85 - Pretrial Proceedings|Subchapter 4 - Indictment Generally|§ 16-85-407. Amendment of indictment and filing of bill of particulars

 (a) The prosecuting attorney or other attorney representing the state, with leave of the court, may amend an indictment as to matters of form or may file a bill of particulars.  (b) However, no indictment shall be amended nor bill of particulars filed so as to change the nature of the crime charged or the degree of the crime charged.  (c) All amendments and bills of particulars shall be noted of record.
AR Code § 16-85-408 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally|Chapter 85 - Pretrial Proceedings|Subchapter 4 - Indictment Generally|§ 16-85-408. Public inspection and disclosure

 (a) When a grand jury indictment for any offense known to the laws of this state shall be found against any person not in actual confinement or held by recognizance to answer to the indictment, the indictment shall not be open to the inspection of any person except the judge and clerk of the court and the prosecuting attorney until the defendant has been arrested.  (b)  (1) No judge, clerk, prosecuting attorney, or other officer of any court shall disclose the fact of any indictment's being found until the defendant has been arrested or recognized to answer the indictment.  (2) Any judge, clerk, or other officer violating the provisions of subdivision (b)(1) of this section shall be guilty of a violation and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000).    (c) The provisions of this section shall not extend to any officer making the disclosure by the issuing or in the execution of any process on the indictment or in any other manner when it shall become necessary in the discharge of any official duty.
AR Code § 16-85-409 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally|Chapter 85 - Pretrial Proceedings|Subchapter 4 - Indictment Generally|§ 16-85-409. Recording

 (a) It shall be the duty of the clerks of the circuit courts of this state, whenever an arrest has been made of any person against whom an indictment has been found by the grand jury, properly returned, to record the indictment, with the entries thereon, in a book to be kept by him or her for that purpose.  (b) In all cases where an indictment may be lost or destroyed, or where the indictment cannot be found, a copy of the record thereof, as provided in subsection (a) of this section, duly certified by the clerk under his or her hand and the seal of the court, shall be taken and used for all purposes in any of the courts of this state the same as the original indictment.