---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3047"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3047"
heading: "Multiple warrants unnecessary"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3047"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 203 — Arrest and Commitment"
---

# §3047. Multiple warrants unnecessary


When two or more charges are made, or two or more indictments are found against any person, only one writ or warrant shall be necessary to commit him for trial. It shall be sufficient to [state](/usc/18/3077.md?p=5) in the writ the name or general character of the [offenses](/usc/18/3156.md?p=a-2), or to refer to them only in general terms.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 816.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 602 (R.S. § 1027).

Minor changes were made in phraseology.