State or county to pay costs on acquittal.

550.040. In all capital cases, and those in which imprisonment in thepenitentiary is the sole punishment for the offense, if the defendant isacquitted, the costs shall be paid by the state; and in all other trials onindictments or information, if the defendant is acquitted, the costs shallbe paid by the county in which the indictment was found or informationfiled.

(RSMo 1939 § 4223, A.L. 2009 H.B. 62)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 3828; 1919 § 4171; 1909 § 5379