If, during the session of any circuit court, there shall be wanted in any case or matter before the court, or before the grand jury, a witness who resides or may be found in any county within the state, and within one hundred (100) miles of the place where the court is being held, such court may order a subpoena or attachment for such witness, directed to the sheriff of the county in which the court is being held. The sheriff shall execute the process according to its command, in the county where such witness may be found, and the service shall be as valid as if effected in the county in which the court is being held. The court may, however, appoint some person not an officer to execute and return such process, whose action in executing it shall be as lawful as if done by the sheriff, and who shall be entitled to the same fees therefor as the sheriff would be entitled to for executing the process.
Structure Mississippi Code
§ 99-9-1. Capias or alias issued for arrest on indictment
§ 99-9-3. Corporations; summons issued on indictment; execution on judgment
§ 99-9-5. Corporations; summons issued to other counties
§ 99-9-9. Corporations; proceeding before justice of the peace
§ 99-9-11. Subpoenas for witnesses
§ 99-9-13. Issuance of subpoena for witness to give deposition for use in another state
§ 99-9-15. Subpoena to compel attendance of witness from nearby county during term
§ 99-9-17. Service of subpoena
§ 99-9-19. Attachment for non-appearing subpoenaed witness
§ 99-9-21. Subpoenaed witness to attend until discharged; scire facias for defaulters
§ 99-9-23. Witness subpoenaed in vacation to appear before grand jury
§ 99-9-25. Attachment of subpoenaed witnesses failing to appear before grand jury
§ 99-9-27. Uniform witness attendance law; short title
§ 99-9-31. Summoning witnesses in this state to testify in another state
§ 99-9-33. Witness from another state summoned to testify in this state