Browse Arkansas Code titles and sections
12-64-517. Depositions.
Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
12-64-517. Depositions.
(a)(1) At any time after charges have been signed as provided herein, any party may take oral or written depositions unless an authority competent to convene a court-martial for the trial of those charges forbids it for good cause.
(2) If a deposition is to be taken before charges are referred for trial, such an authority may designate commissioned officers to represent the prosecution and the defense and may authorize those officers to take the deposition of any witness.
(b) The party at whose instance a deposition is to be taken shall give to every other party reasonable written notice of the time and place for taking the deposition.
(c) Depositions may be taken before and authenticated by any military or civil officer authorized by the laws of the state or by the laws of the place where the deposition is taken to administer oaths.
(d) A duly authenticated deposition taken upon reasonable notice to the other parties so far as otherwise admissible under the rules of evidence may be read in evidence before any court-martial or in any proceeding before a court of inquiry if it appears:
(1) That the witness resides or is beyond the state in which the court-martial or court of inquiry is ordered to sit or beyond the distance of one hundred (100) miles from the place of trial or hearing;
(2) That the witness by reason of death, age, sickness, bodily infirmity, imprisonment, military necessity, nonamenability to process, or other reasonable cause is unable or refuses to appear and testify in person at the place of trial or hearing; or
(3) That the present whereabouts of the witness is unknown.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 12-64-517
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. A text match is a research starting point; applicability is not established.
Issuing source page ↗
Authority boundary: historical statutory source snapshot not current law.
Open the recorded source website ↗
Record provenance
Stable record: arkansas_code:legal_authorities:12-64-517
Source file: gov.ar.code.title.12.odt
Pages: Not recorded – Not recorded
Passage SHA-256: 1776d0438e1858ba0bf8a21d967104eb37d4eb746226a47b3b6a77dab4746b53
Source location: content.xml paragraph 18964
Stored source content
12-64-517. Depositions.
(a)(1) At any time after charges have been signed as provided herein, any party may take oral or written depositions unless an authority competent to convene a court-martial for the trial of those charges forbids it for good cause.
(2) If a deposition is to be taken before charges are referred for trial, such an authority may designate commissioned officers to represent the prosecution and the defense and may authorize those officers to take the deposition of any witness.
(b) The party at whose instance a deposition is to be taken shall give to every other party reasonable written notice of the time and place for taking the deposition.
(c) Depositions may be taken before and authenticated by any military or civil officer authorized by the laws of the state or by the laws of the place where the deposition is taken to administer oaths.
(d) A duly authenticated deposition taken upon reasonable notice to the other parties so far as otherwise admissible under the rules of evidence may be read in evidence before any court-martial or in any proceeding before a court of inquiry if it appears:
(1) That the witness resides or is beyond the state in which the court-martial or court of inquiry is ordered to sit or beyond the distance of one hundred (100) miles from the place of trial or hearing;
(2) That the witness by reason of death, age, sickness, bodily infirmity, imprisonment, military necessity, nonamenability to process, or other reasonable cause is unable or refuses to appear and testify in person at the place of trial or hearing; or
(3) That the present whereabouts of the witness is unknown.
Cross-references
Connections may be documented source relationships, shared citations or nearby passages. Each explains its basis; a connection alone does not establish applicability to your situation.
No explicit source connection was found. This does not mean there are no relevant authorities.