{"identifier":"/us/usc/t19/s537","title":19,"num":"\u00a7\u202f537.","heading":"Officers, informers, and defendants as witnesses","text":"\u00a7\u202f537.\nOfficers, informers, and defendants as witnesses\nNo officer, or other person entitled to or claiming compensation under any provision of Act\nJune 22, 1874","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t19/s537.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t19/s537","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f537."},{"t":"heading","text":"Officers, informers, and defendants as witnesses"},{"t":"content","text":"\n","children":[{"t":"p","text":"No officer, or other person entitled to or claiming compensation under any provision of Act ","children":[{"t":"text","text":"June 22, 1874","tail":" (chapter 391, 18 Statutes 188) shall be thereby disqualified from becoming a witness in any action, suit, or proceeding for the recovery, mitigation, or remission thereof, but shall be subject to examination and cross-examination in like manner with other witnesses, without being thereby deprived of any right, title, share, or interest in any fine, penalty, or forfeiture to which such examination may relate; and in every such case the defendant or defendants may appear and testify and be examined and cross-examined in like manner."}],"tail":"\n"}]},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}