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42 Pa.C.S. § 5972: Definitions.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
- PART VI ACTIONS, PROCEEDINGS AND OTHER MATTERS GENERALLY
- CHAPTER 59 DEPOSITIONS AND WITNESSES
- SUBCHAPTER C RENDITION OF PRISONERS AS WITNESSES IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS
The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter shall have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the meanings given to them in this section:
"Penal institution." Includes a jail, prison, penitentiary, house of correction, correctional institution or other place of penal detention.
"Witness." A person who is confined in a penal institution in any state and whose testimony is desired in another state in any criminal proceeding or investigation by a grand jury or in any criminal proceeding before a court.
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