Amendments of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1896 (Classic Reprint)

Special Sessions in Brooklyn. (M arch 11, 1896, ch. 92) Section 60 to read as follows: 60. Special sessions in Brooklyn. Subject to the power of removal provided for by sections fifty-seven and fifty-eight of this code, the courts of special sessions in the city of Brooklyn shall, in the first instance, have jurisdiction except in case of public officers and conspiracy, to try and determine all complaints made before them, or before a police magistrate, or justice of the peace for misdemeanor committed in said city, where the term of imprisonment does not exceed one year, with or without fine, and to impose the same punishment as is authorized by statute in like cases to be inflicted by the county court of the county of Kings. Where any jury is required for the trial of any crime or misdemeanor in said courts of special sessions in the city of Brooklyn, the said courts shall have power to summons as many jurors as the court may deem necessary for the trial of such action or misdemeanor. The said court of special sessions in the city of Brooklyn shall have power to take bail in a reasonable amount for all misdemeanors and shall have power to take undertakings in bail either with or without the defendant thereon in the discretion of the said courts. All fiues imposed by the said courts of special sessions in the city of Brooklyn, or by police magistrates in said city, upon defendants convicted in said courts or by such magistrates, of crimes, misdemeanors or violations of any city ordinance of the city of Brooklyn, which are paid by such defendants so convicted, to the sheriff of the county of Kings or to the keeper of the penitentiary of said city, shall be paid monthly by the said sheriff or said keeper to the respective clerks of the courts in which the said fines were imposed; provided, however, that the said sheriff or keeper of the penitentiary of Kings
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