A witness who is subpoenaed in two or more cases by the same party shall be entitled to one compensation only from such party for the same day's attendance or travel.
31-01-18. Expenses of witness paid by city or state upon court order in criminal or municipal court action. When a person, as a witness in a criminal or municipal court action, appears before a magistrate, grand jury, or court, upon a subpoena or in pursuance of an undertaking and it appears that the person: 1. Has come from a place outside the county; or 2. Is poor and unable to pay the expenses of such attendance, the court, if the attendance of the witness is upon a trial, by order upon its minutes, or in any other case, the judge, by a written order, may direct the state in district court cases or the city in municipal court cases to pay the witness a reasonable sum to be specified in the order for the necessary expenses of the witness's attendance. Upon the production of the order or a certified copy thereof, the state or city, to whichever entity the order is directed, must pay the witness the sum specified. In district court cases, the attorney general shall pay prosecution witness expenses and the supreme court shall pay other witness expenses.
31-01-19. Witness for indigent defendants subpoenaed and paid by city, county, or state under court order in criminal or municipal court action. If it appears to the court before which a criminal action or municipal ordinance violation is about to be tried that the defendant is unable to pay the witnesses to appear on the defendant's behalf, such court shall make an order that such witnesses as may be deemed reasonable, naming them, be subpoenaed to attend at such trial at the expense of the city, the county, or the state, whichever is liable to pay the costs of the prosecution of such action, and such witnesses must be paid accordingly.
31-01-20. Advance payment of fees - Return of service of subpoena to state demand and nonpayment. Superseded by N.D.R.Civ.P. 45(c)(3), now 45(b).