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Section 550.270 – Payment of fees — deductions.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 550.270. Payment of fees — deductions. — The county treasurers shall pay out all such fees to the proper owners as the same may be called for; provided, that before any such fees shall be paid the party to whom the same is due shall furnish satisfactory evidence to the […]

Section 550.280 – Certain fees deemed criminal costs.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 550.280. Certain fees deemed criminal costs. — All fees due witnesses before the grand jury, and all fees due jurors in any criminal case, and all fees accruing in any inquest case where the verdict of the jury is that the deceased came to death by other than unavoidable accident […]

Section 550.290 – Fees not negotiable or assignable — exception.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 550.290. Fees not negotiable or assignable — exception. — In order to make said sections 550.260 to 550.300 effective, it is hereby declared that all fees due by the state or county on account of any criminal case, or due witnesses before the grand jury, or as a juror or […]

Section 550.160 – Certain officers not to receive witness fees.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 550.160. Certain officers not to receive witness fees. — No officer, appointee or employee holding a state, county, township or municipal office, including police officers and policemen, either by election or appointment, shall claim, be allowed or receive any fee or compensation as a witness for testifying before a coroner’s […]

Section 550.170 – Costs of three witnesses allowed.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 550.170. Costs of three witnesses allowed. — The judge and prosecuting attorney shall in no case tax the state or county with more than the costs of three witnesses to establish any one fact, nor with the costs of witnesses unnecessarily summoned and not examined, but the costs of such […]

Section 550.180 – Clerk liable for neglect, when.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 550.180. Clerk liable for neglect, when. — If any clerk shall fail to tax the costs and make out a proper fee bill, or shall willfully neglect to perform any duty required of him in sections 550.140 and 550.190, he shall be liable to the person injured by such neglect […]

Section 550.020 – State to pay certain costs.

Effective – 28 Aug 1945 550.020. State to pay certain costs. — 1. In all capital cases in which the defendant shall be convicted, and in all cases in which the defendant shall be sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary, and in cases where such person is convicted of an offense punishable solely by imprisonment […]

Section 550.030 – County to pay costs, when.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 550.030. County to pay costs, when. — When the defendant is sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail, or to pay a fine, or both, and is unable to pay the costs, the county in which the indictment was found or information filed shall pay the costs, except such as […]

Section 550.110 – Costs taxed against clerk, when.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 550.110. Costs taxed against clerk, when. — All costs unnecessarily incurred by a violation of sections 545.320 and 545.330 shall be taxed against the clerk or associate circuit judge who caused the same. ­­——– (RSMo 1939 § 4233) Prior revisions: 1929 § 3838; 1919 § 4181; 1909 § 5389