287.570. Contempt--penalty. - Missouri Statutes

Contempt--penalty.

287.570. If any person subpoenaed to appear at any hearingor proceeding, fails to obey the command of such subpoena withoutreasonable cause, or if any person at attendance at any hearingor proceeding shall without reasonable cause, refuse to be sworn,or to be examined, or to answer a question, or to produce a bookor paper or to subscribe or swear to his deposition, he shall bedeemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shallbe punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, orby imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, orby both such fine and imprisonment, and may be prosecutedtherefor in any court of competent jurisdiction, and in case of acontinuing violation, each day's continuance thereof shall be,and deemed to be, a separate and distinct offense.

(RSMo 1939 § 3741)

Prior revision: 1929 § 3351

(1959) Information charging refusal of witness to answer question held adequate, but where motion to dismiss was also based on witness' right to refuse on ground of self-incrimination, the information was properly dismissed. State v. Topel (A.), 322 S.W.2d 160.