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2019 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 19 - Evidence
Chapter 9 - Uniform Act To Secure The Attendance Of Witnesses From Without A State In Criminal Proceedings
Section 19-9-60. Penalty for failure to attend as witness out of state.
Universal Citation: SC Code § 19-9-60 (2019)
If the witness who is summoned as provided in Section 19-9-40, after being paid or tendered by some properly authorized person the sum of ten cents a mile for each mile by the ordinary traveled route to and from the court where the prosecution is pending and five dollars each day that he is required to travel and attend as a witness, fails without good cause to attend and testify as directed in the summons, he shall be punished in the manner provided for the punishment of any witness who disobeys a summons issued from a court of record in this State.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 26-306; 1952 Code Section 26-306; 1948 (45) 1810.
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