Self-incrimination provisions not applicable to perjury prosecutions.

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19-2-11. Self-incrimination provisions not applicable to perjury prosecutions.

The various statutes, which declare that evidence obtained upon the examination of a person as a witness shall not be received against him in any criminal proceeding, do not forbid such evidence being proved against such person upon any proceedings founded upon a charge of perjury committed in such examination.

Source: PenC 1877, §767; CL 1887, §6959; RPenC 1903, §806; RC 1919, §3623; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, §36.0405.


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