Title XXXVII CRIMINAL PROCEDURE Chapter 545 • Effective - 28 Aug 1939 545.080. Indictments, when not to be made public. — When any indictment shall be found against any person for a felony or misdemeanor, not being in actual confinement, or held by recognizance to answer thereto, such indictment shall not be open to the inspection of any person except the judge and clerk of the court and the prosecuting attorney; nor shall it be docketed or entered upon the minutes or records of the court until the defendant therein shall have been arrested. -------- (RSMo 1939 § 3936) Prior revisions: 1929 § 3547; 1919 § 3892; 1909 § 5099 CROSS REFERENCE: Grand jury, penalty for disclosing evidence or indictments, 540.320
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