Ark. Code § 16-90-403

Current with legislation from 2024 Fiscal and Special Sessions.

Section 16-90-403 - Power of county sheriff to prevent escape, etc

In conveying the defendant to the Division of Correction, the county sheriff shall have all the powers of preventing an escape, of resisting an effort to rescue the defendant, of recapturing the defendant, and of summoning persons to his or her aid that the county sheriff would have in executing a warrant of arrest in his or her county.

Ark. Code § 16-90-403

Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 874, eff. 7/1/2019.

Crim. Code, § 294; C. & M. Dig., § 3263; Pope's Dig., § 4108; A.S.A. 1947, § 43-2603.