CODE OF VIRGINIA

ARREST OF WITNESS (§ 19.2-275)

If the certificate recommends that the witness be taken into immediate custody
and delivered to an officer of the requesting state to assure his attendance in
the requesting state, such judge may, in lieu of notification of the hearing,
direct that such witness be forthwith brought before him for the hearing; and
the judge at the hearing being satisfied of the desirability of such custody and
delivery, for which determination the certificate shall be prima facie proof of
such desirability, may, in lieu of issuing subpoena or summons, order that the
witness be forthwith taken into custody and delivered to an officer of the
requesting state.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 19.1-272; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.