                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROCESS AND PROCEDURE (§ 44-47)

In the Virginia National Guard military judges whenever they sit on a military
court, and otherwise presidents of courts-martial and summary court officers,
shall have power to issue warrants to arrest accused persons and to bring them
before the court for trial whenever such persons shall have disobeyed an order
in writing from the convening authority to appear before such court, a copy of
the charge or charges having been delivered to the accused with such order, and
to issue commitments in carrying out sentences of confinement, and to issue
subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum, and to enforce by attachment attendance of
witnesses and the production of books and papers, and to sentence for a refusal
to be sworn or to answer as provided in actions before civil courts. They shall
also have power to punish for contempt occurring in the presence of the court.

HISTORY: 1930, p. 957; Michie Code 1942, § 2673(37); 1976, c. 399; 2011, cc.
572, 586.