Expenses paid for out - of - county or indigent witness produced by state pursuant to subpoena or undertaking

When a person attends before a magistrate, grand jury, or court, as a witness on behalf of the state, upon a subpoena or pursuant to an undertaking, and it appears that he has come from a place out of the county or that he is indigent, the court, if the attendance of a witness is for a trial, by an order entered upon its minutes, or in any other case, the circuit judge, by a written order, may direct the county treasurer to pay the witness a reasonable sum, to be specified in the order, for his expenses. Upon the production of the order, or a certified copy thereof, the county treasurer must pay the witness the sum specified therein, out of the county treasury. Source: SL 1979, ch 159 , § 11. 23A-14-8. (Rule 17(e)) Reserved