99-29-1 - Officers required to give information under oath charging vagrancy; warrant to issue. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 99-29-1. Officers required to give information under oath charging vagrancy; warrant to issue.
 

It shall be the duty of every sheriff, deputy sheriff and constable in every county, and of the police, town marshal, deputy marshals, and of other like officials in every county, city, town, or village in the state to give information under oath to any officer empowered to issue criminal warrants of all vagrants within their knowledge, or whom they have good reason to suspect as being vagrants in their respective counties, cities, towns, and villages; thereupon the said officer shall issue a warrant for the apprehension of the person alleged to be a vagrant. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1906, § 5056; Hemingway's 1917, § 3333; 1930, § 3473; 1942, § 2667.