Provisions
XIII.4 of 1939 • Person bribed or offering bribe may testify.
APPROVED
The Text
Any person charged with receiving a bribe, or with offering or promising a bribe, shall be permitted to testify in his own behalf in any civil or criminal prosecution therefor.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1939
• In Article XIII: Public Officers
• Has 30 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1938
• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision
• Amends or builds on:
◦ 1895-XIII.4
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