Effective – 28 Aug 1939
532.050. Copy of warrant to accompany petition, when. — If the restraint or confinement is by virtue of any warrant, order or process, a copy thereof must accompany the petition, or it must appear, by affidavit annexed thereto, that by reason of the prisoner being removed or concealed before the application, a demand of such copy could not be made, or that such demand was made of the person by whom the prisoner is confined or restrained, and a copy refused.
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(RSMo 1939 § 1592)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 1428; 1919 § 1878; 1909 § 2443