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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>66615</law_id><section_number>19.2-279</section_number><catch_line>Penalty for failure of such witnesses to testify</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><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="2">Witnesses From or for Another State</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If such <span class="dictionary">witness</span>, after coming into this Commonwealth, fails without good cause to attend and testify as directed in the <span class="dictionary">summons</span>, he shall be punished in the manner provided for the punishment of any <span class="dictionary">witness</span> who disobeys a <span class="dictionary">summons</span> issued from a <span class="dictionary">court</span> of record in this Commonwealth.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 19.1-276; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
