TITLE 18

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 7

ARRESTS AND SEIZURES OF PERSONS OR PROPERTY — SPECIAL OFFICERS

18-701.  Refusal of officer to make arrest. Every sheriff, coroner, keeper of a jail, constable, or other peace officer, who wilfully refuses to receive or arrest any person charged with criminal offense, is punishable by fine not exceeding $5,000, and imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one (1) year.

History:

[18-701, added 1972, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 862.]