What is COMPULSORY PROCESS? Definition of COMPULSORY PROCESS in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
Process to compel the attendance in court of a person wanted there as a witness or otherwise; including not only the ordinary subpoena, but also a warrant of arrest or attachment if needed. State v. Nathaniel, 52 La.Ann. 558, 26 So. 1008. It means such coercive means as the courts, by virtue of their inherent powers or sanction of the law, are permitted to employ, Greene v. Ballard, 174 Ky. 808, 192 S.W. 841, 845; and includes right to have subpoena served, as well as issued (Const. 11). Fugate v. Commonwealth, 202 Ky. 509, 260 S.W. 338, 340.
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