Mississippi Code
Chapter 25 - Sheriffs
§ 19-25-11. Arrest and confinement of sheriff

In the event there is outstanding a warrant for the arrest of the sheriff of the county issued by any justice of the peace, mayor, or any police justice in said county whereby the said sheriff has been charged by affidavit duly made before said justice of the peace, mayor, or police justice in said county for any misdemeanor or felony, any constable of the county, or any marshal or police officer of any municipality located in said county, may execute said warrant and arrest the said sheriff. In his failure to make bond in the amount as fixed by the justice of the peace, mayor or police justice where said affidavit was made, the officer making the arrest may confine said sheriff in a county jail adjoining the county of his residence, or in any other county jail in the state, and on the date of trial shall deliver him up to the court for trial. Said officer making the arrest shall be the jailer of said county during the confinement of the said sheriff in jail and/or while his cause on said criminal charge is pending for trial, provided the sheriff was jailer and living in the jail at the time of his arrest.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 19 - Counties and County Officers

Chapter 25 - Sheriffs

§ 19-25-1. Commission; term of office; oath and bond

§ 19-25-3. Eligibility to hold office of sheriff; training in law enforcement required

§ 19-25-5. Penalties of bond

§ 19-25-7. Remedy on joint and several; officer's liability first fixed

§ 19-25-9. Performance of sheriff's duties when latter is incapable, unfit, or the like

§ 19-25-11. Arrest and confinement of sheriff

§ 19-25-13. Budgeting and financing of sheriffs' departments

§ 19-25-15. Identification of sheriffs' motor vehicles; use of unmarked vehicles

§ 19-25-17. Purchase of patrol boats for sheriffs in certain counties

§ 19-25-19. Appointment, oath and compensation of deputy sheriffs

§ 19-25-21. Law enforcement deputies

§ 19-25-23. Maintenance of regular and auxiliary deputies; assistance to other counties; assistance for drug enforcement purposes

§ 19-25-25. Remedy of sheriff against defaulting deputy

§ 19-25-27. Deputy liable on motion of sheriff

§ 19-25-29. Duty of deputy as to process he serves

§ 19-25-31. Riding bailiffs

§ 19-25-33. Dispensing with appointment of bailiffs

§ 19-25-35. Duty of sheriff to attend courts, jail committed persons, and to execute orders and decrees

§ 19-25-37. Duty of sheriff to execute and return process

§ 19-25-39. Sheriff may employ power of the county in executing process

§ 19-25-41. Liability of sheriff for failure to return execution

§ 19-25-43. Liability of sheriff as to final process of chancery court

§ 19-25-45. Liability of sheriff for failure to pay over money collected and similar omissions

§ 19-25-47. Liability of sheriff for false return on any process

§ 19-25-49. Liability of sheriff for not returning money advanced for executing process in case of its non-execution

§ 19-25-51. Liability of sheriff for failing to pay excess money to defendants

§ 19-25-53. Unexecuted writs and list of prisoners to be delivered to successor sheriff

§ 19-25-55. Mittimus and discharge warrants preserved and turned over to successor sheriff

§ 19-25-57. Property delivered to successor sheriff

§ 19-25-59. Mesne process docket kept by sheriff

§ 19-25-61. Execution docket kept by sheriff

§ 19-25-63. Jail docket kept by sheriff

§ 19-25-65. Sheriff to serve as county librarian

§ 19-25-67. Duty of sheriff to keep the peace

§ 19-25-69. Sheriff to have charge of courthouse, jail and protection of prisoners

§ 19-25-74. Feeding of prisoners; log of meals served

§ 19-25-75. Additional guards for jail

§ 19-25-77. Support of prisoner confined for contempt

§ 19-25-79. Sheriff to receive and keep prisoner committed by justice

§ 19-25-81. Sheriff to receive and keep prisoners from United States officers

§ 19-25-83. Maintenance and use of canine corps

§ 19-25-85. Duties of sheriff of Harrison County in separate judicial district

§ 19-25-87. Authority of sheriff to receive funds from federal government and to expend such funds