---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3439"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3439"
heading: "Demurrers and special pleas in bar or abatement abolished; relief on motion—(Rule)"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3439"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 221 — Arraignment, Pleas and Trial"
---

# §3439. Demurrers and special pleas in bar or abatement abolished; relief on motion—(Rule)



## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 832.)