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Mississippi Code 1972
Title 11 - CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 43 - HABEAS CORPUS
Section 11-43-39 - Witnesses subpoenaed-affidavits of

Miss. Code § 11-43-39

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Section 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.

Miss. Code § 11-43-39

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.