Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony
Section 492.490 - Subpoenas to witnesses.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939
492.490. Subpoenas to witnesses. — The officer named in the commission may issue a subpoena to such witnesses, requiring them to appear and testify at a time and place therein named, and may enforce obedience thereto by attachment.
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(RSMo 1939 § 1960)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 1796; 1919 § 5483; 1909 § 6426

Structure Missouri Revised Statutes

Missouri Revised Statutes

Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements

Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony

Section 492.010 - Officers and notary public authorized to administer oaths.

Section 492.020 - Oaths required to be taken before particular officer may be taken before others, when.

Section 492.030 - Parties may affirm, when.

Section 492.040 - Officer shall adopt mode most binding on conscience, when.

Section 492.050 - Parties to be sworn according to the ceremonies of their religion.

Section 492.060 - Persons deemed to have been lawfully sworn, when.

Section 492.070 - Oaths, affirmations, depositions of persons in military service, who may take — form — validation of those previously taken.

Section 492.080 - Depositions may be obtained conditionally.

Section 492.090 - Officers authorized to take depositions.

Section 492.100 - Commissioners of foreign courts may compel attendance of witnesses.

Section 492.110 - Witness residing out of this state, commission to issue.

Section 492.120 - Commission, how issued, to whom directed.

Section 492.130 - Power and duty of the officer under the commission.

Section 492.140 - What officers out of this state may take depositions without commission.

Section 492.150 - Special commissioner appointed when, qualifications — time and place of depositions — enforcement of subpoenas issued by other officer.

Section 492.155 - Powers of special commissioner — rulings on evidence, review.

Section 492.160 - Notice to be given if the party or his attorney resides in this state, how.

Section 492.170 - If they do not reside in this state, how.

Section 492.180 - Notice, how served on party or attorney.

Section 492.190 - By whom served.

Section 492.200 - When notice shall be served.

Section 492.210 - Time may be shortened by court or judge in vacation.

Section 492.220 - Commission to examine witnesses on interrogatories when awarded.

Section 492.230 - To whom directed.

Section 492.240 - Interrogatories to be annexed.

Section 492.250 - Command of the commission.

Section 492.260 - Officer to propound interrogatories.

Section 492.270 - Officer may compel attendance of witness — contempt — if witness imprisoned, on what terms discharged.

Section 492.280 - Production of documentary evidence on taking of deposition, when.

Section 492.290 - Witnesses to be examined on oath.

Section 492.292 - Venue for deposition of employee of a publicly funded crime laboratory.

Section 492.300 - Adverse party may take depositions by giving notice, when.

Section 492.303 - Essential witness, defined — deposition may be taken by prosecutor, procedure — costs — videotape authorized, used when.

Section 492.304 - Visual and aural recordings of child under fourteen admissible, when.

Section 492.310 - Depositions taken in foreign countries to be taken in language of the witness — must be translated.

Section 492.320 - Residence of witness certified by officer.

Section 492.330 - Objections to competency or relevancy, how taken.

Section 492.340 - Deposition shall be submitted to witness for examination — signing of deposition.

Section 492.350 - Certificate of officer taking depositions.

Section 492.360 - Exhibits to be enclosed with depositions and directed to clerk.

Section 492.370 - What constitutes sufficient evidence of the authentication of depositions.

Section 492.380 - Official character of officer in the United States, how attested.

Section 492.390 - Official character of officer in foreign country, how attested.

Section 492.400 - When depositions may be read.

Section 492.410 - Evidence preserved in bill of exceptions may be used, how.

Section 492.420 - Depositions may be taken to perpetuate testimony, when.

Section 492.430 - Petition for commission to take depositions.

Section 492.440 - By whom and how issued — to whom directed.

Section 492.450 - Notice of time and place of taking depositions.

Section 492.460 - If person is minor, notice to be served upon whom.

Section 492.470 - Publication of notice to nonresidents.

Section 492.480 - General notice given, how and when.

Section 492.490 - Subpoenas to witnesses.

Section 492.500 - Duty of officer.

Section 492.510 - Questions put to witnesses to be reduced to writing.

Section 492.520 - Answers to be reduced to writing.

Section 492.530 - Power of adjournment.

Section 492.540 - Depositions, how certified and to whom delivered.

Section 492.550 - May be sent by mail or otherwise, when.

Section 492.560 - Duty of recorder on receiving deposition.

Section 492.570 - Depositions, legally taken, may be read, when.

Section 492.580 - Legal exceptions may be taken.

Section 492.590 - Costs and expenses of taking depositions, how awarded and collected — limitations.