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Ohio Rev Code § 2939.23 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 29 | Crimes-Procedure|Chapter 2939 | Grand Juries|Section 2939.23 | No Indictment to Be Reported.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If an indictment is not found by the grand jury, against an accused who has been held to answer, such fact shall be reported by the foreman to the court of common pleas.
Ohio Rev Code § 2939.24 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 29 | Crimes-Procedure|Chapter 2939 | Grand Juries|Section 2939.24 | Discharge of Indicted Person When No Indictment Returned.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If a person held in jail charged with an indictable offense is not indicted at the term of court at which he is held to answer, he shall be discharged unless:(A) He was committed on such charge after the discharge of the grand jury.(B) The transcript has not been filed.(C) There is not sufficient time at such term of court to investigate said cause.(D) The grand jury, for good cause, continues the hearing of said charge until the next term of court.(E) It appears to the court of common pleas that a witness for the state has been enticed or kept away, detained, or prevented from attending court by sickness or unavoidable accident.
Ohio Rev Code § 2939.25 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 29 | Crimes-Procedure|Chapter 2939 | Grand Juries|Section 2939.25 | Attendance of Witnesses at Foreign Grand Jury Proceedings Definitions.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|As used in sections 2939.25 to 2939.29, inclusive, of the Revised Code:(A) "Witness" includes a person whose testimony is desired in any proceeding or investigation by a grand jury or in a criminal action, prosecution, or proceeding.(B) "State" includes any territory of the United States and District of Columbia.(C) "Summons" includes a subpoena, order, or other notice requiring the appearance of a witness.
Ohio Rev Code § 2939.26 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 29 | Crimes-Procedure|Chapter 2939 | Grand Juries|Section 2939.26 | Compelling Witnesses to Attend by Foreign Courts.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If a judge of a court of record in any state which by its laws has made provision for commanding persons within that state to attend and testify in this state, certifies under the seal of such court that there is a criminal prosecution pending in such court, or that a grand jury investigation has commenced or is about to commence, that a person being within this state is a material witness in such prosecution or grand jury investigation, and that his presence will be required for a specified number of days, upon presentation of such certificate to any judge of a court of record in the county in this state in which such person is, such judge shall fix a time and place for a hearing and shall make an order directing the witness to appear at a time and place certain for the hearing.If at a hearing such judge determines that the witness is material and necessary, that it will not cause undue hardship to the witness to be compelled to attend and testify in the prosecution or grand jury investigation in the other state, and that the laws of the state in which the prosecution is pending, or grand jury investigation has commenced or is about to commence, and of any other state through which the witness may be required to pass by ordinary course of travel, will give to him protection from arrest and the service of civil and criminal process, he shall issue a summons, with a copy of the certificate attached, directing the witness to attend and testify in the court where the prosecution is pending, or where a grand jury investigation has commenced or is about to commence, at a time and place specified in the summons. In any such hearing the certificate is prima-facie evidence of all the facts stated therein.If said certificate recommends that the witness be taken into immediate custody and delivered to an officer of the requesting state to assure his attendance in the requesting state, such judge may, in lieu of notification of the hearing, direct that such witness be forthwith brought before him for said hearing. If the judge at the hearing is satisfied of the desirability of such custody and delivery, for which determination the certificate is prima-facie proof of such desirability, he may, in lieu of issuing subpoena or summons, order that said witness be forthwith taken into custody and delivered to an officer of the requesting state.If the witness, who is summoned as provided in this section, after being paid or tendered by some properly authorized person the sum of ten cents a mile for each mile by the ordinary traveled route to and from the court where the prosecution is pending and five dollars for each day, that he is required to travel and attend as a witness, fails without good cause to attend and testify as directed in the summons, he shall be punished in the manner provided for the punishment of any witness who disobeys a summons issued from a court of record in this state.
Ohio Rev Code § 2939.27 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 29 | Crimes-Procedure|Chapter 2939 | Grand Juries|Section 2939.27 | Certificate Specifying Number of Days Witness Will Be Required.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If a person in any state, which by its laws has made provision for commanding persons within its borders to attend and testify in criminal prosecutions or grand jury investigations commenced or about to commence, in this state, is a material witness in a prosecution pending in a court of record in this state, or in a grand jury investigation which has commenced or is about to commence, a judge of such court may issue a certificate under the seal of the court stating these facts and specifying the number of days the witness will be required. Said certificate may include a recommendation that the witness be taken into immediate custody and delivered to an officer of this state to assure his attendance in this state. This certificate shall be presented to a judge of a court of record in the county in which the witness is found.If the witness is summoned to attend and testify in this state he shall be tendered the sum of ten cents a mile for each mile by the ordinary traveled route to and from the court where the prosecution is pending, and five dollars for each day that he is required to travel and attend as a witness. A witness who has appeared in accordance with the summons shall not be required to remain within this state a longer period of time than the period mentioned in the certificate, unless otherwise ordered by the court. If such witness, after coming into this state, fails without good cause to attend and testify as directed in the summons, he shall be punished in the manner provided for the punishment of any witness who disobeys a summons issued from a court of record in this state.
Ohio Rev Code § 2939.28 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 29 | Crimes-Procedure|Chapter 2939 | Grand Juries|Section 2939.28 | Witness Not Subject to Arrest or the Service of Process.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If a person comes into this state in obedience to a summons directing him to attend and testify in this state, while in this state pursuant to such summons he is not subject to arrest or the service of process, civil or criminal, in connection with matters which arose before his entrance into this state under the summons.If a person passes through this state while going to another state in obedience to a summons to attend and testify in that state or while returning therefrom, while so passing through this state he is not subject to arrest or the service of process, civil or criminal, in connection with matters which arose before his entrance into this state under the summons.
Ohio Rev Code § 2939.29 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 29 | Crimes-Procedure|Chapter 2939 | Grand Juries|Section 2939.29 | Construction and Interpretation.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Sections 2939.25 to 2939.28, inclusive, of the Revised Code shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate their general purpose, to make the law of this state uniform with the law of other states which enact similar uniform legislation.
Ohio Rev Code § 2941.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 29 | Crimes-Procedure|Chapter 2941 | Indictment|Section 2941.01 | Indictment Definitions.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The definition of "magistrate" set forth in section 2931.01 of the Revised Code applies to Chapter 2941. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 2941.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 29 | Crimes-Procedure|Chapter 2941 | Indictment|Section 2941.02 | Indictment Processes Apply to Informations.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|All sections of the Revised Code which apply to prosecutions upon indictments, the process thereon, and the issuing and service thereof, to commitments, bails, motions, pleadings, trials, appeals, and punishments, to the execution of any sentence, and all other proceedings in cases of indictments whether in the court of original or appellate jurisdiction, apply to informations, and all prosecutions and proceedings thereon.
Ohio Rev Code § 2941.021 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 29 | Crimes-Procedure|Chapter 2941 | Indictment|Section 2941.021 | Offenses Prosecuted by Information.

Effective: November 9, 1959|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 51 - 103rd General Assembly|Any criminal offense which is not punishable by death or life imprisonment may be prosecuted by information filed in the common pleas court by the prosecuting attorney if the defendant, after he has been advised by the court of the nature of the charge against him and of his rights under the constitution, is represented by counsel or has affirmatively waived counsel by waiver in writing and in open court, waives in writing and in open court prosecution by indictment.
Ohio Rev Code § 2941.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 29 | Crimes-Procedure|Chapter 2941 | Indictment|Section 2941.03 | Sufficiency of Indictment or Information.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|An indictment or information is sufficient if it can be understood therefrom:(A) That it is entitled in a court having authority to receive it, though the name of the court is not stated;(B) If it is an indictment, that it was found by a grand jury of the county in which the court was held, or if it is an information, that it was subscribed and presented to the court by the prosecuting attorney of the county in which the court was held;(C) That the defendant is named, or, if his name cannot be discovered, that he is described by a fictitious name, with a statement that his true name is unknown to the jury or prosecuting attorney, but no name shall be stated in addition to one necessary to identify the accused;(D) That an offense was committed at some place within the jurisdiction of the court, except where the act, though done without the local jurisdiction of the county, is triable therein;(E) That the offense was committed at some time prior to the time of finding of the indictment or filing of the information.
Ohio Rev Code § 2941.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 29 | Crimes-Procedure|Chapter 2941 | Indictment|Section 2941.04 | Two or More Offenses in One Indictment or Information.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|An indictment or information may charge two or more different offenses connected together in their commission, or different statements of the same offense, or two or more different offenses of the same class of crimes or offenses, under separate counts, and if two or more indictments or informations are filed in such cases the court may order them to be consolidated.The prosecution is not required to elect between the different offenses or counts set forth in the indictment or information, but the defendant may be convicted of any number of the offenses charged, and each offense upon which the defendant is convicted must be stated in the verdict. The court in the interest of justice and for good cause shown, may order different offenses or counts set forth in the indictment or information tried separately or divided into two or more groups and each of said groups tried separately. A verdict of acquittal of one or more counts is not an acquittal of any other count.
Ohio Rev Code § 2941.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 29 | Crimes-Procedure|Chapter 2941 | Indictment|Section 2941.05 | Statement That Accused Has Committed Some Public Offense.

Effective: March 17, 1955|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 26 - 101st General Assembly|In an indictment or information charging an offense, each count shall contain, and is sufficient if it contains in substance, a statement that the accused has committed some public offense therein specified. Such statement may be made in ordinary and concise language without any technical averments or any allegations not essential to be proved. It may be in the words of the section of the Revised Code describing the offense or declaring the matter charged to be a public offense, or in any words sufficient to give the accused notice of the offense of which he is charged.
Ohio Rev Code § 2941.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 29 | Crimes-Procedure|Chapter 2941 | Indictment|Section 2941.06 | Form of Indictment.

Effective: May 9, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 495 - 123rd General Assembly|An indictment may be substantially in the following form:"The State of Ohio,)ss.___________ County)In the Year _______The jurors of the Grand Jury of the State of Ohio, within and for the body of the County aforesaid, on their oaths, in the name and by the authority of the State of Ohio, do find and present that A.B., on the _______ day of ___________, _________, at the county of ___________ aforesaid, did ___________ (here insert the name of the offense if it has one, such as murder, arson, or the like, or if a misdemeanor having no general name, insert a brief description of it as given by law) contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the State of Ohio.________C.D_________(Indorsed) A true bill. Prosecuting AttorneyE.F., Foreperson of the Grand Jury."
Ohio Rev Code § 2941.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 29 | Crimes-Procedure|Chapter 2941 | Indictment|Section 2941.07 | Bill of Particulars.

Effective: January 1, 1974|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 511 - 109th General Assembly|Upon written request of the defendant made not later than five days prior to the date set for trial, or upon order of the court, the prosecuting attorney shall furnish a bill of particulars setting up specifically the nature of the offense charged and the conduct of the defendant which is alleged to constitute the offense.
Ohio Rev Code § 2941.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 29 | Crimes-Procedure|Chapter 2941 | Indictment|Section 2941.08 | Defects Which Do Not Affect Validity of Indictment or Information.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|An indictment or information is not made invalid, and the trial, judgment, or other proceedings stayed, arrested, or affected:(A) By the omission of "with force and arms," or words of similar import, or "as appears by the record";(B) For omitting to state the time at which the offense was committed, in a case in which time is not of the essence of the offense;(C) For stating the time imperfectly;(D) For stating imperfectly the means by which the offense was committed except insofar as means is an element of the offense;(E) For want of a statement of the value or price of a matter or thing, or the amount of damages or injury, where the value or price or the amount of damages or injury is not of the essence of the offense, and in such case it is sufficient to aver that the value or price of the property is less than, equals, or exceeds the certain value or price which determines the offense or grade thereof;(F) For the want of an allegation of the time or place of a material fact when the time and place have been once stated therein;(G) Because dates and numbers are represented by figures;(H) For an omission to allege that the grand jurors were impaneled, sworn, or charged;(I) For surplusage or repugnant allegations when there is sufficient matter alleged to indicate the crime and person charged;(J) For want of averment of matter not necessary to be proved;(K) For other defects or imperfections which do not tend to prejudice the substantial rights of the defendant upon the merits.
Ohio Rev Code § 2941.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 29 | Crimes-Procedure|Chapter 2941 | Indictment|Section 2941.09 | Identification of Group, Association, or Corporation.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|In any indictment or information it is sufficient for the purpose of identifying any group or association of persons, not incorporated, to state the proper name of such group or association, to state any name or designation by which the group or association has been or is known, to state the names of all persons in such group or association or of one or more of them, or to state the name of one or more persons in such group or association referring to the others as "another" or "others." It is sufficient for the purpose of identifying a corporation to state the corporate name of such corporation, or any name or designation by which such corporation has been or is known.
Ohio Rev Code § 2941.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 29 | Crimes-Procedure|Chapter 2941 | Indictment|Section 2941.10 | Indictment Failing to Negative Any Exception, Excuse, or Proviso Contained in Statute.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No indictment or information for any offense created or defined by statute is objectionable for the reason that it fails to negative any exception, excuse, or proviso contained in the statute creating or defining the offense. The fact that the charge is made is an allegation that no legal excuse for the doing of the act exists in the particular case.
Ohio Rev Code § 2941.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 29 | Crimes-Procedure|Chapter 2941 | Indictment|Section 2941.11 | Allege Prior Conviction.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Whenever it is necessary to allege a prior conviction of the accused in an indictment or information, it is sufficient to allege that the accused was, at a certain stated time, in a certain stated court, convicted of a certain stated offense, giving the name of the offense, or stating the substantial elements thereof.
Ohio Rev Code § 2941.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 29 | Crimes-Procedure|Chapter 2941 | Indictment|Section 2941.12 | Pleading a Statute or Right Derived Therefrom.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|In pleading a statute or right derived therefrom it is sufficient to refer to the statute by its title, or in any other manner which identifies the statute. The court must thereupon take judicial notice of such statute.
Ohio Rev Code § 2941.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 29 | Crimes-Procedure|Chapter 2941 | Indictment|Section 2941.13 | Pleading a Judgment or Other Determination.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|In pleading a judgment or other determination of, or a proceeding before, any court or officer, civil or military, it is not necessary to allege the fact conferring jurisdiction on such court or officer. It is sufficient to allege generally that such judgment or determination was given or made or such proceedings had.
Ohio Rev Code § 2941.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 29 | Crimes-Procedure|Chapter 2941 | Indictment|Section 2941.14 | Indictment for Aggravated Murder, Murder, or Voluntary or Involuntary Manslaughter - Specifications.

Effective: May 15, 2002|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 184 - 124th General Assembly|(A) In an indictment for aggravated murder, murder, or voluntary or involuntary manslaughter, the manner in which, or the means by which the death was caused need not be set forth.(B) Imposition of the death penalty for aggravated murder is precluded unless the indictment or count in the indictment charging the offense specifies one or more of the aggravating circumstances listed in division (A) of section 2929.04 of the Revised Code. If more than one aggravating circumstance is specified to an indictment or count, each shall be in a separately numbered specification, and if an aggravating circumstance is specified to a count in an indictment containing more than one count, such specification shall be identified as to the count to which it applies.(C) A specification to an indictment or count in an indictment charging aggravated murder shall be stated at the end of the body of the indictment or count, and may be in substantially the following form:"SPECIFICATION (or, SPECIFICATION 1, SPECIFICATION TO THE FIRST COUNT, or SPECIFICATION 1 TO THE FIRST COUNT). The Grand Jurors further find and specify that (set forth the applicable aggravating circumstance listed in divisions (A)(1) to (10) of section 2929.04 of the Revised Code. The aggravating circumstance may be stated in the words of the subdivision in which it appears, or in words sufficient to give the accused notice of the same)."
Ohio Rev Code § 2941.142 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 29 | Crimes-Procedure|Chapter 2941 | Indictment|Section 2941.142 | Criminal Gang Participation Specification.

Effective: September 30, 2011|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 86 - 129th General Assembly|(A) Imposition of a mandatory prison term of one, two, or three years pursuant to division (G) of section 2929.14 of the Revised Code upon an offender who committed a felony that is an offense of violence while participating in a criminal gang is precluded unless the indictment, count in the indictment, or information charging the felony specifies that the offender committed the felony that is an offense of violence while participating in a criminal gang. The specification shall be stated at the end of the body of the indictment, count, or information, and shall be in substantially the following form: "SPECIFICATION (or, SPECIFICATION TO THE FIRST COUNT). The grand jurors (or insert the person's or the prosecuting attorney's name when appropriate) further find and specify that (set forth that the offender committed the felony that is an offense of violence while participating in a criminal gang.)"(B) The specification described in division (A) of this section may be used in a delinquent child proceeding in the manner and for the purpose described in section 2152.17 of the Revised Code.(C) As used in this section, "criminal gang" has the same meaning as in section 2923.41 of the Revised Code.