A justice of the peace may issue a subpoena for a witness to any county, in a criminal case, and enforce obedience thereto.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 50, art. 2(6); 1857, ch. 64, art. 334; 1871, § 2827; 1880, § 3117; 1892, § 2429; 1906, § 2758; Hemingway's 1917, § 2257; 1930, § 2106; 1942, § 1840.
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