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Code of Laws of South Carolina 1976
Title 23 - LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Chapter 17 - LIABILITIES OF SHERIFFS AND DEPUTY SHERIFFS
Section 23-17-80 - Punishment for permitting escape of convicted criminal

S.C. Code § 23-17-80

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Current through 2024 Act No. 209.
Section 23-17-80 - Punishment for permitting escape of convicted criminal

If any sheriff, deputy sheriff, jailer or other officer wilfully suffer a prisoner in his custody under conviction or under any criminal charge not capital to escape, he shall suffer the like punishment and penalties as the prisoner suffered to escape was sentenced to, or would be liable to suffer, upon conviction of the crime or offense wherewith he stood charged.

S.C. Code § 23-17-80

1869 (14) 309; 1839 (11) 46; R. S. 742; G. S. 682; Civ. C. '02 Section 863; Civ. C. '12 Section 1188; Cr. C. '22 Section 480; Civ. C. '22 Section 2081; 1932 Code Sections 1533, 3538; 1942 Code Section 3538; 1952 Code Section 53-218; 1962 Code Section 53-218.