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2018 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 421 - WITNESSES
.140 Refusal of witness to testify -- Imprisonment.

Universal Citation: KY Rev Stat § 421.140 (2018)
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421.140 Refusal of witness to testify -- Imprisonment. If a witness refuses to testify, or to be sworn, or to give a deposition, he shall be imprisoned so long as he refuses, or until he testifies before an officer who is authorized to take his testimony. The final disposition of the case in which he so refuses shall discharge him from imprisonment. Effective: January 2, 1978 History: Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 423, effective January 2, 1978. -- Transferred 1952 Ky. Acts ch. 84, sec. 1, effective July 1, 1953, from C.C. sec. 538.
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