TITLE 7

SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS

CHAPTER 6

CONTEMPTS

7-615.  Excuse for nonattendance — Restraint of personal liberty. Whenever, by the provisions of this chapter, an officer is required to keep a person arrested on a warrant of attachment in custody, and to bring him before a court or judge, the inability, from illness or otherwise, of the person to attend, is a sufficient excuse for not bringing him up; and the officer must not confine a person arrested upon the warrant in a prison, or otherwise restrain him of personal liberty, except so far as may be necessary to secure his personal attendance.

History:

[(7-615) C.C.P. 1881, sec. 842; R.S., R.C., & C.L., sec. 5167; C.S., sec. 7395; I.C.A., sec. 13-613; am. & redesig. 1998, ch. 112, sec. 2, p. 417.]