Section 2005. Further powers of judges; process and mandates  


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  • The  court shall have the power and jurisdiction to send processes and
      other mandates in any matter of which it has jurisdiction into any  part
      of  the  county  or  any  adjoining county, for service or execution, as
      provided by the criminal procedure law; and particularly to  compel  the
      attendance  of  witnesses,  to  order  the  conditional  examination  of
      witnesses within or without the state, to inquire into the sanity  of  a
      defendant and to dismiss the prosecution of an action conformably to the
      provisions  of  the  criminal  procedure law, and to punish for criminal
      contempt a person guilty thereof  in  the  manner  and  subject  to  the
      limitations prescribed for courts of record by the judiciary law.