18.2-469 - Officer refusing, delaying, etc., to execute process for criminal. - Virginia Statutes

§ 18.2-469. Officer refusing, delaying, etc., to execute process for criminal.

If any officer willfully and corruptly refuse to execute any lawful processrequiring him to apprehend or confine a person convicted of, or charged with,an offense, or willfully and corruptly omit or delay to execute such process,whereby such person shall escape and go at large, such officer shall beguilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.

(Code 1950, § 18.1-300; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.)