[MACER libro secundo publicorum. ] §48.16.15.prIn senatus consultum Turpillianum incidunt, qui subiecissent accusatores, aut subiecti postulassent nec peregissent reos, aut aliter quam abolitione facta destitissent: quique chirographum ob accusandum dedissent pactionemue aliquam interposuissent.
[Macer, On Public Trials, Book II.] Those who fall under the Senatus Consultum Turpillianum are those who have put forward proxy prosecutors, or who, having been put forward as proxies, have brought a charge but have not prosecuted the defendants to a conclusion, or who have abandoned the prosecution in some other way than after an official dismissal of the case; and those who have given a written undertaking for the purpose of prosecuting or have entered into some agreement.
hoc autem uerbum 'nec peregissent' ad uniuersos supra scriptos pertinere dicendum est.
Moreover, it must be said that this phrase "and have not prosecuted to a conclusion" applies to all those mentioned above.
§48.16.15.1An ad eos, qui hodie de iudiciis publicis extra ordinem cognoscunt, senatus consultum pertineat, quaeritur: sed iam hoc iure ex sacris constitutionibus utimur, ut pertineat ita ex singulis causis singulae poenae irrogentur.
The question is asked whether the Senatus Consultum applies to those who today take cognizance of public trials outside the regular order (extra ordinem); but we already follow this law based on imperial constitutions, so that it does apply, and thus individual penalties are imposed for individual cases.
§48.16.15.2Eos, de quorum calumnia agi non permittitur, si destiterint, non incidere in poenam huius senatus consulti constitutionibus cauetur.
It is provided by imperial constitutions that those against whom an action for malicious prosecution (calumnia) is not permitted, if they abandon the prosecution, do not fall under the penalty of this Senatus Consultum.
§48.16.15.3Si propter mortem rei accusator destiterit, non potest hoc senatus consulto teneri, quia morte rei iudicium soluitur, nisi tale crimen fuit, cuius actio et aduersus heredes durat, ueluti maiestatis.
If the prosecutor has abandoned the prosecution because of the death of the defendant, he cannot be held liable under this Senatus Consultum, because the trial is dissolved by the death of the defendant, unless it was such a crime whose action also continues against the heirs, as for example, treason (maiestas).
idem in accusatione repetundarum est, quia haec quoque morte non soluitur.
The same is true in a prosecution for extortion (repetundae), because this too is not dissolved by death.
§48.16.15.4Ceterum si, postea quam accusator destitit, reus decesserit, non ideo magis delictum accusatoris releuatur.
However, if the defendant dies after the prosecutor has abandoned the case, the prosecutor's offense is not on that account any more relieved.
nam eum qui semel destitit, si postea accusare paratus sit, non esse audiendum Seuerus et Antoninus statuerunt.
For Severus and Antoninus decreed that a person who has once abandoned a case is not to be heard if he is subsequently prepared to prosecute.
§48.16.15.5Qui post inscriptionem ante litem contestatam anno uel biennio agere non potuerint uariis praesidum occupationibus uel etiam ciuilium officiorum necessitatibus districti, in senatus consultum non incident.
Those who, after the signing of the charge (inscriptio) and before the joinder of issue (lis contestata), have been unable to proceed for a year or two, being distracted by the various occupations of the governors or even by the necessities of civic duties, will not fall under the Senatus Consultum.
§48.16.15.6Quamquam prius reum quis detulerat, et si post abolitionem, antequam reus repeteretur, alia abolitio superuenerit: non ex superiore, sed ex secunda abolitione dies triginta computantur.
Even though someone had previously denounced the defendant, if another dismissal (abolitio) occurs after a dismissal and before the defendant is prosecuted again, the thirty days are calculated not from the earlier dismissal but from the second one.