The process for arrest on an indictment shall be a capias, which shall be issued immediately on the return of the indictment into court, and made returnable instanter, unless otherwise ordered by the court, and if the capias be not returned executed, the clerk shall issue an alias, returnable to the next term, without an order for that purpose.
Miss. Code Ann. § 99-9-1
Capias or alias issued for arrest on indictment
Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 284; 1871, § 2784; 1880, § 3018; 1892, § 1366; 1906, § 1438; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1195; 1930, § 1218; 1942, § 2461.
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