A subpoena is a legal paper telling someone they have to show up to testify. It can be handed to that person by a sheriff, coroner, marshal, constable, or a regular person who has no stake in the case. Officers like sheriffs and marshals can also deliver subpoenas in nearby counties that border the county where the court is located.
491.110. , by whom . — Subpoenas shall be directed to the person to be to , and may be served by the sheriff, , or any in the county in which the es to be summoned reside or may be found, or by any who would be a in the , and the sheriff, coroner, marshal or constable of any county may serve any issued out of any of their county, time, in any county adjoining that in which the court is being held.
(RSMo 1939 § 1907)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 1743; 1919 § 5430; 1909 § 6374
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Related Missouri laws
Summons, form
RSMo 491.100
Subpoenas, how served and returned
RSMo 491.120
Fees to be tendered, when
RSMo 491.130
Summons of witnesses
RSMo 491.090
Witness liable to action, when
RSMo 491.140
Testimony of witness not to be used to convict him of fraud
RSMo 491.080
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