West Virginia Code § 57-5-6

Commitment to jail of person attending but refusing to testify or produce
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writing.
If a person, after being served with such summons, shall attend and yet refuse to be sworn,
or to give evidence, or to produce any writing or document required, he may by order of the
court whose clerk issued said summons, or of the person before whom he was summoned to
attend, be committed to jail, there to remain until he shall, in custody of thee jailer, give such
evidence or produce such writing or document.

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