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Arrest of party at large against whom an indictment is found.
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18. Whenever an indictment shall have been found by the grand jury in any court of oyer and terminer or general gaol delivery, or at any general or quarter sessions of the peace in Ireland, against any person who shall then be at large, and who shall not already have appeared and pleaded to such indictment, (and whether such person shall have been bound by recognizance to answer to the same or not,) the person who shall act as clerk of the Crown at such court, or as clerk of the peace at such sessions, shall, at any time after the end of the assizes or sessions at which such indictment shall have been found, upon application of the prosecutor or of some person on his behalf, and free from charge, grant unto such prosecutor or person a certificate (I b.) of such indictment having been found; and upon production of such certificate to any justice for the county in which the offence shall be alleged in such indictment to have been committed, or in which the person thereby indicted shall reside or be, or be suspected to reside or be, such justice shall issue his warrant to arrest such person, and to cause him to be brought before him, or some other justice for the same county, to be dealt with according to law; and upon such person being so brought before such justice, and upon its being proved on oath that the person so arrested is the same person who is charged and named in such indictment, such justice shall, without further inquiry, either commit him for trial or admit him to bail in manner aforesaid; and in any such case as last aforesaid, if the person so indicted shall at the time be confined in any gaol for any other offence than that charged in such indictment, such justice shall, upon like proof on oath that the person so confined is the same person who is so charged in such indictment, issue his warrant (E b.) to the keeper of such gaol, commanding him to detain such person in his custody until he shall be discharged therefrom by due course of law; but nothing herein contained shall be deemed to prevent any clerk of the Crown or peace or other officer from issuing any warrant in any such case for the arrest of any such person which he might otherwise by law issue.
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