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.
Miss. Code Ann. § 13-1-13
Witness may be examined touching interest or convictions
Applied in 18 court decisions — leading case 503 So. 2d 803 - Wetz v. State (1987)
Most recently applied in 728 So. 2d 1070 - Bailey v. State (November 1997)
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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