If someone is called to show up as a witness in a court case and they do not show up, a court order can be used to have them physically brought in. A sheriff can carry out this order even across county lines, as long as the neighboring county is next to the county where the court is located.
491.150. Attendance, how enforced. — A person as a in any pending in any , and failing to attend, may be compelled, by against his body, to appear, which may be in any county in the state, and the sheriff may serve such writ of attachment, when issued by any court of record of his county time, in any county adjoining that in which the court is being held.
(RSMo 1939 § 1900)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 1736; 1919 § 5423; 1909 § 6367
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