Sec. 18-23. - Witnesses; attendance; subpoenas.

The court shall have the power to issue writs or summonses for witnesses, and compel their attendance, and to punish for contempt by fine or imprisonment. The court may also issue writs of habeas corpus and testificandum, upon continuance of any complaint or proceeding before it, may take recognizance to the state, with sureties in such sum as such court shall deem proper, with the condition to appear before such court and make further answer to such complaint or proceeding, and in the meantime to keep the peace, and, in want thereof, may commit the same to the state adult correctional institutions until such recognizance shall be given, or the parties lawfully discharged therefrom.

(Code 1986, § 2-372)