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2012 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 19 EVIDENCE
Chapter 05. Subpoena And Attendance Of Witnesses
§19-5-7 Disobedience of subpoena or refusal to testify as contempt.
SD Codified L § 19-5-7 (through 2012) What's This?
19-5-7. Disobedience of subpoena or refusal to testify as contempt. Disobedience of a subpoena, or a refusal to be sworn, or to answer as a witness, or to subscribe a deposition, when lawfully ordered, may be punished as a contempt of the court or officer, by whom his attendance or testimony is required.
Source: CCivP 1877, § 453; CL 1887, § 5267; RCCivP 1903, § 493; RC 1919, § 2740; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 36.0304.
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