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South Carolina · Through 2025 Session of the General Assembly

S.C. Code Ann. § 25-1-3130: Oath of Witnesses.

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  1. Title 25 - MILITARY, CIVIL DEFENSE AND VETERANS AFFAIRS
  2. CHAPTER 1 Military Code
  3. ARTICLE 19 Code of Military Justice for the National Guard

All persons who give evidence before a court-martial must be examined on oath or affirmation administered by the trial counsel in the following form: "Do you swear (or affirm) that the evidence you shall give in the case now in hearing shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So help you God." In case of affirmation the closing sentence of adjuration may be omitted.

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