Printed federal acts received in evidence, when.

490.050. Copies of any act, law or resolution contained inany such book, now or hereafter deposited in the office of thesecretary of state, certified under the hand and official seal ofsaid secretary, shall be received in evidence.

(RSMo 1939 ยง 1816)

Prior revisions: 1929 ยง 1652; 1919 ยง 5339; 1909 ยง 6284

(1956) Where defendant in criminal case on cross-examination first denied and then admitted conviction of crime but stated he remembered very little about it and his attorney's questions tended to elicit answers that he had not been convicted, the record of his conviction was admissible. State v. Barnholtz (Mo.), 287 S.W.2d 808.