{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-22-22-722","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 22, § 22-722","heading":"Summoning witness in this state to testify in another","body":"state.\n\nA. If a judge of a court of record in any state which by its\n\nlaws has made provision for commanding persons within that state to\n\nattend and testify in this state certifies under the seal of such\n\ncourt that there is a criminal prosecution pending in such court, or\n\nthat a grand jury investigation has commenced or is about to\n\ncommence, that a person being within this state is a material\n\nwitness in such prosecution, or grand jury investigation, and that\n\nhis presence will be required for a specified number of days, upon\n\npresentation of such certificate to any judge of a court of record\n\nin the county in which such person is, such judge shall fix a time\n\nand place for a hearing, and shall make an order directing the\n\nwitness to appear at a time and place certain for the hearing.\n\nB. If at a hearing the judge determines that the witness is\n\nmaterial and necessary, that it will not cause undue hardship to the\n\nwitness to be compelled to attend and testify in the prosecution or\n\na grand jury investigation in the other state, and that the laws of\n\nthe state in which the prosecution is pending, or grand jury\n\ninvestigation has commenced or is about to commence, (and of any\n\nother state through which the witness may be required to pass by\n\nordinary course of travel), will give to him protection from arrest\n\nand the service of civil and criminal process, he shall issue a\n\nsummons, with a copy of the certificate attached, directing the\n\nwitness to attend and testify in the court where the prosecution is\n\npending, or where a grand jury investigation has commenced or is\n\nabout to commence at a time and place specified in the summons. In\n\nany such hearing the certificate shall be prima facie evidence of\n\nall the facts stated therein.\n\nC. If said certificate recommends that the witness be taken\n\ninto immediate custody and delivered to an officer of the requesting\n\nstate to assure his attendance in the requesting state, such judge\n\nmay, in lieu of notification of the hearing, direct that such\n\nwitness be forthwith brought before him for said hearing; and the\n\njudge at the hearing being satisfied of the desirability of such\n\ncustody and delivery, for which determination the certificate shall\n\nbe prima facie proof of such desirability may, in lieu of issuing\n\nsubpoena or summons, order that said witness be forthwith taken into\n\ncustody and delivered to an officer of the requesting state.\n\nD. If the witness, who is summoned as above provided, after\n\nbeing paid or tendered by some properly authorized person the\n\ngreater of the sum authorized by the law of the state to which the\n\nwitness must travel or the sum of fifteen cents ($0.15) a mile for\n\neach mile by the ordinary traveled route to and from the court where\n\nthe prosecution is pending and Twelve Dollars ($12.00) for each day,\n\nthat he is required to travel and attend as a witness, fails without\n\ngood cause to attend and testify as directed in the summons, he\n\nshall be punished in the manner provided for the punishment of any\n\nwitness who disobeys a summons issued from a court of record in this\n\nstate.","path":["OK Code","Title 22"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os22.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"981e0aad45b0b295ace56c8d4e99598c8b103f74594fc1a984ff0b6b5a7ee592","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-22-22-721","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-22-22-723"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}