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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>70616</law_id><section_number>19.2-267</section_number><catch_line>Provisions applicable to witnesses in criminal as well as civil cases; obligation to attend; summons</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.01-407</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="19.2">Criminal Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="16">Evidence and Witnesses</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">In General</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Sections <a class="law" title="Competency of witness" href="/8.01-396.1/">8.01-396.1</a>, <a class="law" title="Members of Department of Motor Vehicles' Crash Investigation Team not to be required to give evidence in certain cases" href="/8.01-402/">8.01-402</a>, <a class="law" title="Who may administer oath to witness" href="/8.01-405/">8.01-405</a>, <a class="law" title="How summons for witness issued and to whom directed; how witness released from subpoena; prior permission of court to summon certain officials and judges" href="/8.01-407/">8.01-407</a>, and <a class="law" title="Recognizance taken upon continuance of case" href="/8.01-408/">8.01-408</a> to <a class="law" title="Inmates as witnesses in civil actions" href="/8.01-410/">8.01-410</a>, inclusive, shall apply to a criminal as well as a civil case in all respects, except that a <span class="dictionary">witness</span> in a criminal case shall be obliged to attend, and may be proceeded against for failing to do so, although there may not previously have been any payment, or tender to him of anything for attendance, mileage, or tolls. In a criminal case a <span class="dictionary">summons</span> for a <span class="dictionary">witness</span> may be issued by the attorney for the Commonwealth or other attorney charged with the responsibility for the <span class="dictionary">prosecution</span> of a violation of any <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span> or by the attorney for the <span class="dictionary">defendant</span>; however, any attorney who <span class="dictionary">issues</span> such a <span class="dictionary">summons</span> shall, at the time of the issuance, file with the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">court</span> the names and addresses of such witnesses except to the extent protected under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Crime victim's right to nondisclosure of certain information; exceptions; testimonial privilege" href="/19.2-11.2/">19.2-11.2</a>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 19.1-262; 1960, c. 366; 1962, c. 374; 1975, c. 495; 1977, c. 624; 1991, c. 38; 1994, c. 543; 2007, c. 552; 2008, c. 124; 2014, c. 744.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
