§ 147-25. Duty of sheriff and clerk on pardon granted. - North Carolina Statutes

§147‑25.  Duty of sheriff and clerk on pardon granted.

If a prisoner is pardonedconditionally or unconditionally, or his punishment is commuted, the officer towhom the warrant for such purpose is issued shall, as soon as may be afterexecuting it, make return thereof, signed by him, with his doing thereon, tothe Governor's office, and shall file in the office of the clerk of the courtin which the offender was convicted an attested copy of the warrant and return,and the clerk shall file the same in his office and subjoin a brief abstractthereof to the record of the conviction and sentence, and at the next regularterm of said court said warrant shall be entered upon the minutes of the court.(1905, c. 356, s. 4; Rev., s. 5337; C.S., s. 7645.)