46 Pa. Stat. § 61a

Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-92
Section 61a - Persistence in refusal to swear or affirm

If any such person so committed to prison, shall persist in his refusal to swear or affirm, or being sworn or affirmed shall still, on being brought before such house from the prison, refuse to testify, such house may make a further order for the detention of such delinquent in said prison until the next succeeding legislature shall have met, and until the proper house succeeding the one which ordered the commitment originally, shall make an order for his further detention, or discharge as to them shall seem expedient.

46 P.S. § 61a

1842, June 13, P.L. 491, § 2.