540.200. Witness may be compelled to testify. - Missouri Statutes

Witness may be compelled to testify.

540.200. If the court determines that the witness is boundto answer, and he persists in his refusal, he shall be broughtbefore the court, who shall proceed therein in the same manner asif the witness had been interrogated and refused to answer inopen court.

(RSMo 1939 § 3917, A.L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al.)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 3528; 1919 § 3873; 1909 § 5081

(1961) Procedure in cases where witness refuses to answer questions of grand jury outlined. In re Presta v. Owsley (A.), 345 S.W.2d 649.