- (1)
- (2) In any prosecution or any investigation by an examining court or grand jury of gambling violations, it shall be no exemption for a witness that his testimony may incriminate himself. It shall be no exemption for the buyer of a lottery ticket, in any prosecution against the seller of a lottery ticket, that his testimony may incriminate himself.
- (3) No testimony given in the proceedings stated in subsections (1) and (2) of this section shall be used against the testifying witness in any prosecution except for false swearing.
- (4) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, a witness testifying in any prosecution against the seller of a lottery ticket, shall be discharged from all liability for any offense necessarily disclosed in his testimony.
- (5) A witness testifying in any prosecution for gambling shall be discharged from all liability for gambling disclosed in his testimony.
- (6) No person against whom a witness testifies in any prosecution for gambling shall testify as to any gambling by the witness.
History: Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 406, sec. 334. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 1328a, 1973, 2579.