11-43-39 - Witnesses subpoenaed - affidavits of. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 11-43-39. Witnesses subpoenaed - affidavits of.
 

The judge or chancellor may issue or order subpoenas for witnesses and compel their attendance, as a circuit court could in term time, and fine witnesses or others for contempt. Whenever the personal attendance of a witness cannot be procured, his affidavit, taken on reasonable notice to the adverse party, may be received in evidence. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 65, art. 1 (6); 1857, ch. 48, art. 12; 1871, § 1411; 1880, § 2532; 1892, § 2245; 1906, § 2464; Hemingway's 1917, § 2030; 1930, § 1933; 1942, § 2834.