Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Article 24.22. Witness Fined And Attached
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Art. 24.22. [481] [545] WITNESS FINED AND ATTACHED. If a
witness summoned from without the county refuses to obey a
subpoena, he shall be fined by the court or magistrate not exceeding
five hundred dollars, which fine and judgment shall be final,
unless set aside after due notice to show cause why it should not be
final, which notice may immediately issue, requiring the defaulting
witness to appear at once or at the next term of said court, in the
discretion of the judge, to answer for such default. The court may
cause to be issued at the same time an attachment for said witness,
directed to the proper county, commanding the officer to whom said
writ is directed to take said witness into custody and have him
before said court at the time named in said writ; in which case such
witness shall receive no fees, unless it appears to the court that
such disobedience is excusable, when the witness may receive the
same pay as if he had not been attached. Said fine when made final
and all costs thereon shall be collected as in other criminal cases.
Said fine and judgment may be set aside in vacation or at the time or
any subsequent term of the court for good cause shown, after the
witness testifies or has been discharged. The following words
shall be written or printed on the face of such subpoena for
out-county witnesses: "A disobedience of this subpoena is
punishable by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, to be
collected as fines and costs in other criminal cases."
Acts 1965, 59th Leg., p. 317, ch. 722, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1966.
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