Section 19-2-11 - Self-incrimination provisions not applicable to perjury prosecutions.
19-2-11. Self-incrimination provisions not applicable to perjury prosecutions. The various statutes, which declare that evidence obtained upon the examination of a person as a witness shall not be received against him in any criminal proceeding, do not forbid such evidence being proved against such person upon any proceedings founded upon a charge of perjury committed in such examination.
Source: PenC 1877, § 767; CL 1887, § 6959; RPenC 1903, § 806; RC 1919, § 3623; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 36.0405.