Section 38-2-442. Refusal to appear or testify; penalty

   Every person not subject to this article who:

   (1) Has been subpoenaed to appear as a witness or to produce books and records before any military court or before any military or civil officer designated to take a deposition to be read in evidence before a military court;

   (2) Has been duly paid or tendered the fees and mileage of a witness at the rates allowed to witnesses attending the superior courts of the state; and

   (3) Willfully neglects or refuses to appear or refuses to qualify as a witness or to testify or to produce any evidence which the person may have been duly subpoenaed to produce

shall be deemed guilty of an offense against the state and may be punished by the military court which issued the subpoena or subpoena for the production of documentary evidence in the same manner and to the same extent as provided for the failure to appear, refusal to qualify as a witness or to testify, or refusal or failure to produce any evidence which the person may have been duly subpoenaed to produce, as provided in actions or proceedings in the superior courts of the state.

Ga. L. 1916, p. 158, § 3; Code 1933, § 86-1201; Ga. L. 1955, p. 10, § 60.47.