All witnesses summoned for the Commonwealth shall be entitled to receive for each day's attendance all necessary tolls, and such reimbursement for his daily mileage as prescribed in § 2.2-2823. All allowances to witnesses summoned on behalf of the Commonwealth shall be paid by the treasurer of the county or corporation in which the trial is held or in which the grand jury is summoned and the amount so paid by such treasurer shall be refunded to him out of the state treasury, on a certificate of the clerk of the court in which the trial was held or before which the grand jury was summoned.
Code 1950, § 14-186; 1954, c. 709; 1964, c. 386, § 14.1-189; 1972, c. 719; 1976, c. 308; 1977, c. 483; 1998, c. 872.
Structure Code of Virginia
§ 17.1-600. Laws of costs not penal; discretion of courts of equity
§ 17.1-601. General rule as to recovery of costs on final judgment
§ 17.1-602. When successful plaintiff not to recover costs
§ 17.1-603. Costs when suit is in name of one person for another
§ 17.1-604. Costs in appellate courts
§ 17.1-605. Same; printing or otherwise reproducing brief and appendix
§ 17.1-606. Persons allowed services without fees or costs
§ 17.1-607. Security for costs upon suit by nonresident
§ 17.1-608. How obligor in such bond may obtain indemnity
§ 17.1-609. Costs on certain motions and interlocutory orders
§ 17.1-610. Payment of costs when new trial granted
§ 17.1-611. Allowances to witnesses for Commonwealth
§ 17.1-612. Allowances to other witnesses
§ 17.1-613. By whom and upon what certificate allowances to witnesses paid
§ 17.1-614. List of entries made on behalf of witnesses
§ 17.1-615. Time within which witnesses may be paid out of state treasury
§ 17.1-616. Restriction of costs for witnesses generally; when entry for witness not allowed
§ 17.1-617. Number of witnesses paid fees in criminal cases
§ 17.1-620. When juror not entitled to compensation
§ 17.1-621. Clerk to make entry on minutes stating amount due and by whom payable
§ 17.1-622. Clerk to transmit orders making allowances to Supreme Court, treasurer and jurors
§ 17.1-623. Payment of allowances
§ 17.1-626. Other items to be taxed in costs
§ 17.1-626.1. Recovery of costs in civil actions for bad checks
§ 17.1-627. Premium on indemnifying bond taxed as costs
§ 17.1-629. No judgment for costs against Commonwealth; exception