Any person subject to Chapter 20 NMSA 1978 who, without proper authority, releases any prisoner committed to his charge or who through neglect or design suffers any such prisoner to escape shall be punished as a court-martial may direct, whether or not the prisoner was committed in strict compliance with law.
§ 20-12-31 NMSA 1978
Releasing prisoner without proper authority
1978 Comp., § 20-12-31, enacted by Laws 1989, ch. 337, § 30.
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