KRS 35.235: Refusal to appear or testify.

(1) Any person not subject to this code, who:

(a) Has been duly subpoenaed to appear as a witness or to produce books and

records before a court -martial or court of inquiry, or before any military or

civil officer designated to take a deposition to be read in evidence before such

a court;

(b) Has been duly paid or tendered the fees and mileage of a witness at the rates

allowed to witnesses attending a criminal court of the state; and

(c) Willfully neglects or refuses to appear, or refuses to qualify as a witne ss or to

testify or to produce any evidence which that person may have been legally

subpoenaed to produce;

may be punished by the military court in the same manner as a criminal court of the

state.

(2) The fees and mileage of witnesses shall be advanced o r paid out of the

appropriations for the compensation of witnesses.