§ 16-5-201 — Indictments - allegations - form

Colorado § 16-5-201

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 16: Criminal
• Art.: Commencement of Criminal Action

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Every indictment or accusation
of the grand jury shall be deemed sufficient technically and correct which states
the offense in the terms and language of the statute defining it, including either
conjunctive or disjunctive clauses, or so plainly that the nature of the offense may
be easily understood by the jury. Pleading in either the conjunctive or the
disjunctive shall place a defendant on notice that the prosecution may rely on any
or all of the alternatives alleged. The commencement of the indictment shall be in
substance as follows:

STATE OF COLORADO )

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County of.................................................)

Of the ........ term of the ........ court, in the year ........ . The grand jurors chosen,
selected, and sworn, in and for the county of .........., in the name and by the authority
of the people of the state of Colorado, upon their oaths, present. (Here insert the
offense, the name of the person charged, and the time and place of committing the
same, with reasonable certainty.) Every indictment shall be signed by the foreman
of the grand jury returning it and by the prosecuting attorney, his or her assistant,
or his or her deputy.

Legislative History

Source: L. 72: R&RE, p. 214, � 1. C.R.S. 1963: � 39-5-201. L. 2003: Entire section amended, p. 972, � 1, effective April 17.