If such recognizance be given, the party complained of shall be discharged; but if he fail or refuse to find surety it shall be the duty of the associate circuit judge to commit him to prison until he find the same, specifying in the warrant the cause of commitment and the sum in which security was required.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 542.050
Recognizance — penalty for failure to give
Effective: 28 Aug 1939; (RSMo 1939 § 3794); Prior revisions: 1929 § 3404; 1919 § 3749; 1909 § 4957
Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.