Section 15-21-28 Penalty - Refusal or neglect to deliver true copy of detention order, etc. - Alabama Statutes

Section 15-21-28

Penalty - Refusal or neglect to deliver true copy of detention order, etc.

Any officer who refuses or neglects to deliver a true copy of the order, writ, warrant or process by virtue of which he detains any prisoner, either to the prisoner himself or to any other person who applies for the same on his behalf, for six hours after demand is made, forfeits to the prisoner $200.00, and is also guilty of a misdemeanor, on conviction of which he shall be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than $500.00; but no officer is required to deliver more than two copies of such order, writ, warrant or process.

(Code 1852, §739; Code 1867, §4290; Code 1876, §4966; Code 1886, §4789; Code 1896, §4842; Code 1907, §7037; Code 1923, §4336; Code 1940, T. 15, §32.)