If either party subpoena more than three witnesses to prove any one fact, or shall subpoena any person or persons and not examine them as witnesses on the trial, he shall pay the costs occasioned by such surplus or unnecessary witness or witnesses, unless the testimony of such unexamined witnesses shall be rendered unnecessary by admissions of the opposite party on the trial.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.370
Cost of surplus witnesses paid by whom
Known as the Child Victim Witness Protection Law
The act spans §§ 491–491 (67 sections).
Effective: 28 Aug 1945; (RSMo 1939 § 2657, A.L. 1945 p. 765 § 93); Prior revisions: 1929 § 2271; 1919 § 2821; 1909 § 7498
Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.