Citation in the Code of Criminal Procedure

Abstract

The criminal process is a progressive and coordinated activity, in which the main participants exercise their rights and fulfill their obligations by performing appropriate acts regulated by the rules of criminal procedural law. The procedural act is the legal instrument consisting in the manifestation of will through which the rights and prerogatives of judicial bodies and procedural subjects participating in criminal proceedings are exercised. Manifestations of will of judicial bodies could be: ordering the initiation of criminal investigation, closing the initiation of criminal proceedings, sending to trial, taking preventive measures and precautionary measures, order to summon certain persons. The procedural act is the legal means by means of which the task arising from the procedural acts performed and the procedural measures taken during the criminal proceedings is carried out. Procedural acts have their basis for the prior existence of procedural acts, thus becoming acts derived from them. Starting from these definitions, I will present in turn more information about the summons, a topic that I will analyze both theoretically and practically because it requires a thorough knowledge of the details related to the procedure of summoning a person when he is called to appear before the court or before another judicial body.