§ 190.65 Grand jury; when indictment is authorized.\n 1. Subject to the rules prescribing the kinds of offenses which may\nbe charged in an indictment, a grand jury may indict a person for an\noffense when (a) the evidence before it is legally sufficient to\nestablish that such person committed such offense provided, however,\nsuch evidence is not legally sufficient when corroboration that would be\nrequired, as a matter of law, to sustain a conviction for such offense\nis absent, and (b) competent and admissible evidence before it provides\nreasonable cause to believe that such person committed such offense.\n 2. The offense or offenses for which a grand jury may indict a person\nin any particular case are not limited to that or those which may have\nbeen designated, at the commencement of the grand jury proceeding, to be\nthe subject of the inquiry; and even in a case submitted to it upon a\ncourt order, pursuant to the provisions of section 170.25, directing\nthat a misdemeanor charge pending in a local criminal court be\nprosecuted by indictment, the grand jury may indict the defendant for a\nfelony if the evidence so warrants.\n 3. Upon voting to indict a person, a grand jury must, through its\nforeman or acting foreman, file an indictment with the court by which it\nwas impaneled.\n
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