2017 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 58 Coroners and Inquests
Section 58.300 Coroner to administer an oath to the jurors.

Universal Citation: MO Rev Stat § 58.300 (2017)

Effective 28 Aug 1939

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT

Chapter 58

58.300. Coroner to administer an oath to the jurors. — The coroner shall administer an oath or affirmation to the jurors, in the following form:

You solemnly swear (or affirm) that you will diligently inquire and true presentment make, how and by whom the person who here lies dead came to his death, and you shall deliver to me, coroner of this county, a true inquest thereof, according to such evidence as shall be laid before you and according to your knowledge.

(RSMo 1939 § 13235)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 11616; 1919 § 5924; 1909 § 2929

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