If any sheriff fails to execute any process for the execution of which his fees have been paid in advance, and does not return with the writ the money so advanced, he shall be liable on his bond, if the process issued from the circuit or chancery court, for Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00), and if from a court of a justice of the peace, for Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00), which sum may be recovered on the motion of the party at whose instance the process issued, in the court from which it issued, on five days' notice to the officer and his sureties.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 19 - Counties and County Officers
§ 19-25-1. Commission; term of office; oath and bond
§ 19-25-3. Eligibility to hold office of sheriff; training in law enforcement required
§ 19-25-7. 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
§ 19-25-25. 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
§ 19-25-33. Dispensing with appointment of bailiffs
§ 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
§ 19-25-51. 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