Terms Used In Missouri Laws 144.350

  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.

If any person summoned as a witness by the director of revenue or such employee of the director of revenue shall fail to obey such summons or shall refuse to testify or answer any material question or shall refuse to produce any book, record, paper or other data when required so to do, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as provided by law.