R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-2: Persons not entitled to take oath.

No person who shall be committed on execution awarded against him or her as plaintiff in replevin or as defendant in any action on a penal statute or in any action for conversion or detention of personal property, or for any malicious injury to the person, health or reputation of the plaintiff in such suit, or for seduction, or for any trespass, excepting only such as are particularly named in § 10-13-1, shall be deemed to be within the meaning of the provisions of that section or entitled to be admitted to take the oath as provided in § 10-13-1.