Idaho Code
Idaho Code § 9-1302 (2026)
Privilege of witnesses — Questions required to be answered.
✓ current as of May 2026
Find cases:
SyfertCases citing this section
IClegislature.idaho.gov
Justiaon Justia
CornellLII Search
CasesGoogle Scholar
Privilege of witnesses — Questions required to be answered.
A witness must answer questions legal and pertinent to the matter in issue, though his answer may establish a claim against himself; but he need not give an answer which will have a tendency to subject him to punishment for a felony; nor need he give an answer which will have a direct tendency to degrade his character, unless it be the very fact in issue, or to a fact from which the fact in issue would be presumed. But a witness must answer as to the fact of his previous conviction for felony.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5
cases, 1953–1980 · leading case: State v. Dunn, 434 P.2d 88 (Idaho 1967).
State v. Dunn, 434 P.2d 88 (Idaho 1967). “§ 9-1209, I.C. § 9-1302 and I.C. § 19-2110. As a witness such accused "may be impeached by the party against whom he was called, by contradictory evidence, or by evidence that his general reputation for truth, honesty or integrity is bad, but not by evidence of particular…”
State v. Knee, 616 P.2d 263 (Idaho 1980). “In addition, I.C. § 9-1302, which requires that a witness must answer to the fact of his previous conviction for a felony, was not repealed.”
State v. Haggard, 486 P.2d 260 (Idaho 1971). “§ 9-1209, § 9-1302 and § 19-2110, do not require disclosure of either the number or the nature of the felony or felonies of which an accused has been previously convicted, to be used for impeachment purposes when he has taken the stand in his own defense.”
State v. Owen, 253 P.2d 203 (Idaho 1953). “§ 9-1302, I.C. This section is a part of Title 9, dealing with evidence generally, and is applicable alike in civil and criminal actions.”
State v. Shepherd, 486 P.2d 82 (Idaho 1971). “§ 9-1209 1 § 9-1302 2 and § 19-2110 3 , do not require disclosure of either the number or the nature of the felony or felonies of which an accused has been previously convicted, to be used for impeachment purposes when he has taken the stand in his own defense. In spite of any…”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.