35.235 Refusal to appear or testify.

KY Rev Stat § 35.235 (2019) (N/A)
Copy with citation
Copy as parenthetical citation

35.235 Refusal to appear or testify. (1) Any person not subject to this code, who: (a) Has been duly subpoenaed to appear as a witness or to produce books and records before a court-martial or court of inquiry, or before any military or civil officer designated to take a deposition to be read in evidence before such a court; (b) Has been duly paid or tendered the fees and mileage of a witness at the rates allowed to witnesses attending a criminal court of the state; and (c) Willfully neglects or refuses to appear, or refuses to qualify as a witness or to testify or to produce any evidence which that person may have been legally subpoenaed to produce; may be punished by the military court in the same manner as a criminal court of the state. (2) The fees and mileage of witnesses shall be advanced or paid out of the appropriations for the compensation of witnesses. Effective: June 25, 2013 History: Amended 2013 Ky. Acts ch. 32, sec. 48, effective June 25, 2013. -- Amended 1970 Ky. Acts ch. 56, sec. 33. -- Created 1954 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 46, effective July 1, 1954.