23A-14-19. Certificate by judge or magistrate for summons of witness from another state--Recommendation for immediate custody. A circuit judge or a magistrate judge may issue a certificate under the seal of his court stating that a person in another state is a material witness in a prosecution pending in a court presided over by a circuit court judge or magistrate judge or in a grand jury investigation which has commenced or is about to commence in this state, if that state has made provisions in its laws for commanding persons within its borders to attend and testify in criminal prosecutions or grand jury investigations commenced or about to commence in this state. The certificate may include a recommendation that the witness be taken into immediate custody and delivered to an officer of this state to assure his attendance in this state. This certificate shall be presented to a judge of a court of record in the jurisdiction in which the witness is found.
Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 34.2503; SDCL, § 23-40-19; SL 1978, ch 178, § 191.
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