Chap. 142.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6218 of the Code of Virginia,
in relation to securing the attendance of witnesses. [fH B 124]

Approved March 20, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
sixty-two hundred and eighteen of the Code of Virginia, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 6218. Whenever on the calling of or during the trial of a
civil or criminal case in any court of record it appears to the court that
it is necessary to have a witness from a county or city other than that
of trial, the summons, rule, or attachment issued for such witness from
the trial court may, when the court so orders, be executed by its officers
in any county or city of the State, for which services the officer shall
be allowed a reasonable compensation by the court.

Whenever the Commonweaith or a defendant in a criminal prosecu-
tion in any court of record in this State shall require as a witness in his
behalf, a convict or jail prisoner in the penitentiary, or on the State
farm, or in a State convict road camp, the clerk of such county, on
the application of such defendant or his attorney, or the attorney for
the Commonwealth, shall issue a summons for such witness and place
it in the hands of the sheriff of the county, or sergeant of the city, as
the case may be, who shall go where such witness may then be, serve him
with said summons, and carry him to the said court to testify as such
witness, and after he shall have so testified and been released as such
witness carry him back to the place whence he came, for all of which
service, such officer shall be paid out of the criminal expense funds
in the State treasury, such compensation as the court in which the case
is pending, may certify to be reasonable.