<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 33-10-138 - Refusal to appear or testify. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2055629Normal { text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2055629SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2055629CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2055629Normal-000000 { text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2055629DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2055629Normal-000001 { margin-left: 0.70in; text-indent: -0.45in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2055629000002 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2055629SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2055629SCL-000003 { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } body { text-decoration-skip-ink: none; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="s2055629Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=33-10-138"><span class="s2055629SENU">33-10-138</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2055629SENU">. </span><span class="s2055629CL">Refusal to appear or testify.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2055629Normal-000000"><span class="s2055629DefaultParagraphFont">Any person not subject to this code who:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2055629Normal-000001"><span class="s2055629DefaultParagraphFont">(1)    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; and</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2055629Normal-000001"><span class="s2055629DefaultParagraphFont">(2)    Willfully neglects or refuses to appear, or refuses to qualify as a witness or to testify or to produce any evidence which that person may have been legally subpoenaed to produce;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2055629Normal"><span class="s2055629DefaultParagraphFont">may be punished by the military court in the same manner as a criminal court of the state.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2055629Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2055629000002"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2055629Normal"><span class="s2055629SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2055629SCL-000003"> SL 2012, ch 175, § 119.</span></p></div></body></html>