The judge granting the writ may order it to be issued by the Clerk of the Supreme Court, or of any circuit or chancery court, who shall immediately issue it on receiving the order; or, when not convenient to a clerk, the judge himself shall issue the writ. Any judge or chancellor who shall wilfully refuse or neglect to grant, or to issue and try, the writ of habeas corpus, when required by law to do so, shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor in office, and any clerk who shall not, when ordered, immediately issue the writ, and other process, shall be liable, on conviction thereof, to be removed from office; and the judge or clerk shall, in case of such neglect or refusal, be liable, civilly, to the party aggrieved.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure
§ 11-43-1. To what cases the writ extends
§ 11-43-5. Relator not discharged on account of defective proceedings
§ 11-43-11. Refusal to grant writ
§ 11-43-13. Bail by the way may be required
§ 11-43-15. Writ issued by judge or clerk
§ 11-43-17. Form and service of writ
§ 11-43-19. Taking of person in certain cases
§ 11-43-21. May be served on Sunday
§ 11-43-23. Where and when returnable
§ 11-43-25. When person detaining another guilty of crime
§ 11-43-27. Production of the body
§ 11-43-29. What the return or answer shall contain
§ 11-43-31. Penalty for disobedience of the writ
§ 11-43-37. Return not conclusive
§ 11-43-39. Witnesses subpoenaed-affidavits of
§ 11-43-41. Record of proceedings
§ 11-43-43. Conclusiveness of judgment
§ 11-43-45. Sheriff to attend trial
§ 11-43-47. Costs in certain cases, and security for
§ 11-43-49. Defaulting witness dealt with
§ 11-43-51. Liabilities and rights of witnesses
§ 11-43-53. Appeal in habeas corpus
§ 11-43-55. Procedure on appeal from judgment on habeas corpus