W. Va. Code § 62-7-9

Current through 2024 First Special Session

Section 62-7-9 - Same - Immunity of guards from arrest

All guards while proceeding to the place where a prisoner is confined for the purpose of removing him to the penitentiary or other place, and while engaged in such removal, shall be privileged from arrest except for felony and breach of the peace, such privilege to cover one day for each two hundred miles traveled by railroad and one day for each fifty miles traveled by other conveyances.