11-25-11 - How warrant directed and executed. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 11-25-11. How warrant directed and executed.
 

The warrant shall be directed to the sheriff or any constable of the proper county, as the case may require, and shall be made returnable on a day certain, not less than five (5) days nor more than twenty (20) days after its date, and shall be forthwith executed by the proper officer on the defendant, in the same manner as a summons is required to be served, by delivering a copy, and he shall make due return to the justice court judge to whom the case is assigned, at the time and place therein mentioned, of the manner in which he shall have executed the same. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 56, art. 7(6); 1857, ch. 42, art. 6; 1871, § 1585; 1880, § 2648; 1892, § 4465; 1906, § 5044; Hemingway's 1917, § 3316; 1930, § 3461; 1942, § 1038; Laws,  1982, ch. 423, § 18; Laws, 1986, ch. 459, § 22, eff from and after July 1, 1986.