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Miss. Code Ann. § 11-9-119

Form of scire facias for witness

Codes, 1880, § 2249; 1892, § 2408; 1906, § 2737; Hemingway’s 1917, § 2236; 1930, § 2085; 1942, § 1819.

The scire facias to be issued by the justice for a defaulting witness may be as follows, viz.:

“The State of Mississippi. “To any lawful officer of County: “This is to command you to make known to that a judgment in favor of for ten dollars has been given against him by me, a justice of the peace of County, for his default in not appearing before me, at, on the day of A. D., to testify as a witness for in the case of against, No. as he has been subpoenaed to do; and unless, on the day of, A. D., before me at, at, o’clock,, he shall show cause to the contrary, the said judgment will be made final; and have there then this writ. “Witness my hand this the day of, A. D. J.P.”

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