§ 10-9-31 - Power of justices to admit to bail. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 10-9-31

   § 10-9-31  Power of justices to admit tobail. – Whenever any person is committed to a correctional institution on any criminalaccusation for want of bail, any justice of the supreme or superior court, orany person specially appointed by either of the courts, may admit him or her tobail in like manner as might have been done by the court or magistrate whocommitted him or her, and the supreme or superior court justices respectivelyshall have power to issue a writ of habeas corpus and to cause the prisoner tobe brought before them, whenever it shall be necessary for the purposeexpressed in this section.