18.2-475 - Officers, etc., voluntarily allowing prisoner convicted of or charged with felony to escape; penalty. - Virginia Statutes

§ 18.2-475. Officers, etc., voluntarily allowing prisoner convicted of orcharged with felony to escape; penalty.

If any sheriff, jailer or other officer, or any guard or other personsummoned or employed by any such sheriff, jailer or other officer,voluntarily allows a prisoner convicted of or charged with felony to escapefrom his custody, he shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony.

(Code 1950, § 18.1-286; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1983, c. 360.)