Provisions
XVI.4 proposed for 1916 • Witness.
REJECTED
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
• Has 30 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 4 of 1915
If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:
• Joined the Constitution in 1916
• Been in Article XVI: Official corruption
• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1895-XIII.4
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