As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Witness” means a person who is confined in a penal institution in any state and whose testimony is desired in another state in any criminal proceeding or investigation by a grand jury or in any criminal action before a court;
(2) “Penal institutions” includes a jail, prison, penitentiary, house of correction, or other place of penal detention;
(3) “State” includes any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any territory of the United States.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts
Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses
Chapter 43 - Witnesses Generally
Subchapter 3 - Uniform Rendition of Prisoners as Witnesses in Criminal Proceedings Act
§ 16-43-301. Interstate rendition of prisoners as witnesses — Definitions
§ 16-43-302. Hearing or request for presence of prisoner in another state
§ 16-43-303. Finding of court — Order that prisoner be produced in other state
§ 16-43-304. Contents of order — Safeguarding custody — Payment of expenses
§ 16-43-305. Insane or mentally ill persons not subject to subchapter
§ 16-43-306. Certificate for obtaining prisoner from another state to testify in this state
§ 16-43-307. Order for compliance with terms prescribed by court of other state