33-13-25 - Reports and receiving of prisoners. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 33-13-25. Reports and receiving of prisoners.
 

(1)  No provost marshal, commander of a guard, master-at-arms, warden, keeper, or officer of a municipal or county jail or any other jail, designated under Section 33-13-23, may refuse to receive or keep any prisoner committed to his charge, when the committing person furnishes a statement, signed by him, of the offense charged against the prisoner. 

(2)  Every commander of a guard, master-at-arms, warden, keeper or officer of a municipal or county jail or of any other jail, designated under Section 33-13-23, to whose charge a prisoner is committed shall, within twenty-four (24) hours after that commitment or as soon as he is relieved from guard, report to the commanding officer of the prisoner or the Adjutant General the name of the prisoner, the offense charged against him, and the name of the person who ordered or authorized the commitment, and such report shall be entered on the jail docket. 
 

Sources: Former § 33-13-61 [Codes, 1942, § 8529-12; Laws,  1966, ch. 538, § 12] repealed by Laws,  1981, ch. 362, § 102, eff from and after July 1, 1981, amended and recodified as § 33-13-25 by Laws,  1981, ch. 362, § 14, eff from and after July 1, 1981.