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Miss. Code Ann. § 99-3-15

Escaped offender may be pursued and retaken without warrant

Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 278; 1871, § 2778; 1880, § 3028; 1892, § 1377; 1906, § 1449; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1206; 1930, § 1229; 1942, § 2472.

If an offender escape or be rescued, the person from whose possession or custody he escaped or was rescued, may immediately pursue and retake him at any time and in any county without warrant.

Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.