72-15-110. Refusal to be examined -- civil contempt. All such interrogatories and answers must be reduced to writing and signed by the party examined and filed in the court. If the person so cited refuses to appear and submit to such examination or to answer such interrogatories as may be put to him touching the matter of such complaint, the court or judge may commit him to the county jail, there to remain in close custody until he submits to the order of the court or judge.

     History: En. Sec. 341, p. 328, L. 1877; re-en. Sec. 341, 2nd Div. Rev. Stat. 1879; re-en. Sec. 341, 2nd Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; re-en. Sec. 4518, Pol. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 3081, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 9998, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 1734; re-en. Sec. 9998, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 91-609.