Page:1864-65 Territory of Dakota Session Laws.pdf/84

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PENAL CODE.

5. Resistance willfully offered by any person to the lawful order or process of any court;

6. The contumacious and unlawful refusal of any person to be sworn as a witness; or, when so sworn, the like refusal to answer any material question;

7. The publication of a false or grossly inaccurate report of the proceedings of any court. But no person can be punished, as for a contempt, in publishing a true, full, and fair report of any trial, argument, decision, or proceeding had in court;

Sec. 202. Every attorney or counselor-at-law who, knowing that an application has been made for an order staying the trial of an indictment to a judge, authorized to grant the same, and has been denied, without leave reserved to renew it, makes an application to another judge to stay the same trial, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 203. Every grand juror who, with knowledge that a challenge, interposed against him by a defendant, has been allowed, is present at or takes part or attempts to take part in the consideration of the charge against the defendant who interposed the challenge, or the deliberations of the grand jury thereon, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 204. Every magistrate or clerk of any magistrate who willfully permits any deposition taken on an information or examination of a defendant before such magistrate, and remaining in the custody of such magistrate or clerk, to be inspected by any person, except a judge of a court having jurisdiction of the offense, the attorney general, the district attorney of the county and his assistants, and the defendant and his counsel, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 205. Every clerk of any court who willfully permits any deposition returned by any grand jury with a presentment made by them, and filed with such clerk, to be inspected by any person, except the court, the deputies or assistants of such clerk and the district attorney and his assistants, until after the arrest of the defendant, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 206. Every person who, having been called upon, by the lawful order of any court, to make a true exhibit of his real and personal effects, either;