TITLE 20

STATE PRISON AND COUNTY JAILS

CHAPTER 6

COUNTY JAILS

20-616.  Sheriff answerable for federal prisoners. A sheriff to whose custody a prisoner is committed, as provided in the last section, is answerable for his safe-keeping in the courts of the United States, according to the laws thereof.

History:

[(20-616) 1863, p. 475, sec. 42; R.S., R.C., & C.L., sec. 8530; C.S., sec. 9420; I.C.A., sec. 20-606.]