2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 13 - EVIDENCE, PROCESS AND JURIES
Chapter 1 - Evidence.
13-1-13 - Witness may be examined touching interest or convictions.
§ 13-1-13. Witness may be examined touching interest or convictions.
Any witness may be examined touching his interest in the cause or his conviction of any crime, and his answers may be contradicted, and his interest or his conviction of a crime established by other evidence. A witness shall not be excused from answering any material and relevant question, unless the answer would expose him to criminal prosecution or penalty.
Sources: Codes, 1857, ch. 61, art. 208; 1871, § 778; 1880, § 1607; 1892, § 1746; 1906, § 1923; Hemingway's 1917, § 1583; 1930, § 1532; 1942, § 1693.
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