If a sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable or other officer authorized to serve legal process receives from the defendant or any other person any money or other valuable thing as a consideration, reward or inducement for omitting or delaying to arrest a defendant or to carry him before a magistrate, for delaying to take a person to prison, for postponing the sale of property under an execution or for omitting or delaying to perform any duty pertaining to his office he shall be punished by a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars.
S.C. Code Ann. § 16-9-240
Taking of consideration or the like by sheriff or other officer for not performing duties
1962 Code SECTION 16-214; 1952 Code SECTION 16-214; 1942 Code SECTION 1522; 1932 Code SECTION 1522; Cr
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