When a person accused of any offense removes or escapes to another county, a warrant issued by a justice of the peace in the county in which the offense was committed shall authorize the arrest of such offender, and his removal to the county in which the offense was committed or is triable.
Miss. Code Ann. § 99-3-19
Warrant good across county line
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 49 So. 3d 1073 - Moffett v. State (2010)
Most recently applied in 180 F. Supp. 3d 467 - Holloway v. Lamar County (April 2016)
Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 333; 1871, § 2826; 1880, § 3032; 1892, § 1380; 1906, § 1452; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1209; 1930, § 1232; 1942, § 2475.
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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.