Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 491 - Witnesses
Section 491.180 - Penalty where party refuses to attend and testify.

Missouri Revised Statutes

Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements

Chapter 491 - Witnesses

Section 491.010 - Witness's interest does not disqualify — exception — statements of deceased persons and incompetents and other parties to the transaction — abrogation of deadman statute.

Section 491.015 - Victim or witness in certain cases not to be interrogated as to prior sexual conduct.

Section 491.016 - Otherwise inadmissible witness statement admissible in criminal proceeding, when.

Section 491.030 - Adverse party may be compelled to testify in civil cases.

Section 491.040 - Sections 491.010 and 491.030 construed.

Section 491.050 - Convicts competent witnesses — convictions and certain pleas may be proved to affect credibility.

Section 491.060 - Persons incompetent to testify — exceptions, children in certain cases.

Section 491.070 - Cross-examination of witnesses — scope.

Section 491.074 - Prior inconsistent statement may be admissible in criminal cases as substantive evidence.

Section 491.075 - Statement of child under fourteen or vulnerable person admissible, when.

Section 491.078 - Juvenile court adjudication, use to affect credibility — sexual offense adjudication, affect on credibility — multiple adjudications, admissible, when.

Section 491.080 - Testimony of witness not to be used to convict him of fraud.

Section 491.090 - Summons of witnesses — procedure — consequences of failure to appear.

Section 491.100 - Summons, form — how issued — subpoena for property, court's authority to quash, when exercised.

Section 491.110 - Subpoenas, by whom served.

Section 491.120 - Subpoenas, how served and returned.

Section 491.130 - Fees to be tendered, when.

Section 491.140 - Witness liable to action, when.

Section 491.150 - Attendance, how enforced.

Section 491.160 - Attachment may issue, when.

Section 491.170 - Witness attached, may be discharged on bail.

Section 491.180 - Penalty where party refuses to attend and testify.

Section 491.190 - Fine for nonattendance.

Section 491.200 - Penalty for refusing to testify.

Section 491.205 - Court may compel testimony, witness immunity, exception, when, penalty.

Section 491.210 - Witness not excused from testifying, when.

Section 491.220 - Witness, when free from arrest.

Section 491.230 - Power to issue writ of habeas corpus — persons detained in correctional facility shall not attend civil proceeding — exceptions — conditions.

Section 491.240 - Writ to obtain witness from county jail.

Section 491.250 - Application for writ.

Section 491.260 - Application of prosecuting officers.

Section 491.270 - Prisoner to be remanded after testifying.

Section 491.280 - Fees of witnesses.

Section 491.290 - Fees, how paid.

Section 491.310 - Associate circuit judge to issue subpoenas.

Section 491.320 - Validity of subpoena.

Section 491.330 - Associate circuit judge may order witness attached, when.

Section 491.340 - Attachment to be executed as in criminal cases — cost.

Section 491.350 - Penalty for failure to obey subpoena without excuse.

Section 491.360 - Continuance of case — associate circuit judge to notify witnesses.

Section 491.370 - Cost of surplus witnesses paid by whom.

Section 491.380 - Competency of witnesses, how determined — oath of witnesses.

Section 491.400 - Definitions.

Section 491.410 - Summoning witness in this state to testify in another state.

Section 491.420 - Witness from another state summoned to testify in this state.

Section 491.430 - Exemption from arrest and service of process.

Section 491.440 - Uniformity of interpretation.

Section 491.450 - Short title.

Section 491.600 - Courts with criminal jurisdiction may issue orders to protect witness or victim.

Section 491.610 - Violation of protective orders, penalties.

Section 491.620 - Pretrial releases of defendant conditional — notice of prohibited witness tampering activities required.

Section 491.640 - Prosecutors coordinators training council may provide for security of witnesses and families, when — powers — request by law enforcement agencies, content — delegation of program administration, to whom.

Section 491.641 - Pretrial witness protection services fund created — use of moneys — application, contents, closed record.

Section 491.675 - Citation of sections 491.675 to 491.705.

Section 491.678 - Child defined.

Section 491.680 - Court may order video recording of alleged child victim, when — procedure — transcript — exclusion of defendant from proceedings, opportunity to review — cross-examination.

Section 491.685 - Defendant may be excluded from child victim deposition proceedings, when.

Section 491.687 - Court may order videotaped reexamination, when.

Section 491.690 - Provisions of sections 491.675 to 491.693 not to apply where defendant has waived right to counsel — exceptions.

Section 491.693 - Testimony to be under oath.

Section 491.696 - Child defined — videotaped testimony for juvenile court hearings.

Section 491.699 - Juvenile court hearings — court may order video recording of alleged child victim, when — procedure — cross-examination — counsel appointed for perpetrator, when.

Section 491.702 - Perpetrator may be excluded from child victim deposition proceeding, when — sequestration of victim — review of tapes required, when.

Section 491.705 - Court may order videotaped reexamination, when — testimony to be under oath.

Section 491.710 - Hearings involving child witnesses given docket priority — delays or continuances granted, when.

Section 491.725 - Citation of law — definitions — applicability.