Section 491.260 – Application of prosecuting officers.
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 491.260. Application of prosecuting officers. — When such application shall be made by the attorney general, prosecuting or circuit attorney, or other public prosecutor, it shall not be necessary to swear to the truth of the facts set forth in the application. ——– (RSMo 1939 § 1912) Prior revisions: 1929 […]
Section 491.270 – Prisoner to be remanded after testifying.
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 491.270. Prisoner to be remanded after testifying. — A prisoner who shall be brought before any court, public body or officer, upon a writ of habeas corpus, to testify, shall be remanded, after having testified, to the prison from which he was taken. ——– (RSMo 1939 § 1913) Prior revisions: […]
Section 491.180 – Penalty where party refuses to attend and testify.
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 491.180. Penalty where party refuses to attend and testify. — If a party, on being duly summoned, refuse to attend and testify, either in court or before any person authorized to take his deposition, besides being punished himself as for a contempt, his petition, answer or reply may be rejected, […]
Section 491.090 – Summons of witnesses — procedure — consequences of failure to appear.
Effective – 28 Aug 1985 491.090. Summons of witnesses — procedure — consequences of failure to appear. — 1. In all cases where witnesses are required to attend the trial in any cause in any court of record, a summons shall be issued by the clerk of the court wherein the matter is pending, or […]
Section 491.100 – Summons, form — how issued — subpoena for property, court’s authority to quash, when exercised.
Effective – 28 Aug 1985 491.100. Summons, form — how issued — subpoena for property, court’s authority to quash, when exercised. — 1. Such summons shall be in the form of a subpoena, shall state the name of the court and the title of the action, the names, addresses and telephone numbers of the attorneys […]
Section 491.110 – Subpoenas, by whom served.
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 491.110. Subpoenas, by whom served. — Subpoenas shall be directed to the person to be summoned to testify, and may be served by the sheriff, coroner, marshal or any constable in the county in which the witnesses to be summoned reside or may be found, or by any disinterested person […]
Section 491.120 – Subpoenas, how served and returned.
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 491.120. Subpoenas, how served and returned. — 1. The service of a subpoena to testify shall be by reading the same or delivering a copy thereof to the person to be summoned; provided, that in all cases where the witness shall refuse to hear such subpoena read or to receive […]
Section 491.130 – Fees to be tendered, when.
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 491.130. Fees to be tendered, when. — A witness shall not be compelled to attend, as such, in a civil suit, at a greater distance than forty miles from his place of residence, unless his legal fees for traveling, in going to and returning from the place of trial, and […]
Section 491.140 – Witness liable to action, when.
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 491.140. Witness liable to action, when. — When a party causing a witness to be summoned, shall have paid or tendered to such witness his legal fees for traveling, and one day’s attendance, at the time of summoning such witness, if he fail to attend he shall be liable to […]
Section 491.150 – Attendance, how enforced.
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 491.150. Attendance, how enforced. — A person summoned as a witness in any cause pending in any court of record, and failing to attend, may be compelled, by writ of attachment against his body, to appear, which may be served in any county in the state, and the sheriff may […]