As Amended
SEC. 25-7-47. Witness fees.
Witnesses in the county, circuit, and chancery courts shall receive
one dollar and fifty cents per day and five cents for each mile going to
and returning from the courthouse to their homes by the nearest route,
and such tolls and ferriages as they may actually be obliged to pay; but
mileage, toll, and ferriage shall be charged but once at each term of court,
and a charge shall not be made for mileage except that traveled in this
state. Witnesses before a justice of the peace shall be allowed one dollar
per day and no more. Witnesses in all other cases shall receive the same
compensation as they receive before the circuit court. It shall
not be necessary to issue subpoenas for police officers as witnesses
in city cases of cities having a population of more than ten thousand according
to the federal census of 1930; and such officers, when used as witnesses
in such cases, are not to be allowed witness fees.
SOURCES: Codes, 1880, § 1595; 1892, § 2023; Laws, 1906,
§ 2199; Hemingway's 1917, § 1884; Laws, 1930, § 1805;
Laws, 1942, § 3953; Laws, 1936, ch. 249.