{"data":{"id":"us-ca/pen-1331","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"PEN § 1331","heading":"","body":"Disobedience to a subpoena, or a refusal to be sworn or to testify as a witness, may be punished by the Court or magistrate as a contempt. A witness disobeying a subpoena issued on the part of the defendant, unless he show good cause for his nonattendance, is liable to the defendant in the sum of one hundred dollars, which may be recovered in a civil action.","path":["Penal Code - PEN","PART 2. OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE [681. - 1620.]","TITLE 10. MISCELLANEOUS PROCEEDINGS [1268. - 1424.5.]","CHAPTER 3. Compelling the Attendance of Witnesses [1326. - 1332.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"961fab269190fbd99db195208eb8c66071e68fd9cebeefcba419d8c061f70566","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/pen-1330","next":"us-ca/pen-1331.5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}