44-47 - Process and procedure. - Virginia Statutes

§ 44-47. Process and procedure.

In the National Guard, not in federal service, military judges whenever theysit on a military court, and otherwise presidents of courts-martial andsummary court officers, shall have power to issue warrants to arrest accusedpersons and to bring them before the court for trial whenever such personsshall have disobeyed an order in writing from the convening authority toappear before such court, a copy of the charge or charges having beendelivered to the accused with such order, and to issue commitments incarrying out sentences of confinement, and to issue subpoenas and subpoenasduces tecum, and to enforce by attachment attendance of witnesses and theproduction of books and papers, and to sentence for a refusal to be sworn orto answer as provided in actions before civil courts. They shall also havepower to punish for contempt occurring in the presence of the court.

(1930, p. 957; Michie Code 1942, § 2673(37); 1976, c. 399.)