Title XXXVII CRIMINAL PROCEDURE Chapter 550 Effective - 28 Aug 1939 550.170. Costs of three witnesses allowed. — The judge and prosecuting attorney shall in no case tax the state or county with more than the costs of three witnesses to establish any one fact, nor with the costs of witnesses unnecessarily summoned and not examined, but the costs of such surplus or unnecessary witnesses shall, in the discretion of the court, be taxed against the party or attorney causing them to be summoned. -------- (RSMo 1939 § 4245) Prior revisions: 1929 § 3850; 1919 § 4193; 1909 § 5401
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