Bail may be given to the sheriff or officer holding the defendant in custody, by a fidelity or surety insurance company authorized to act as surety within the State of Mississippi. Any such company may execute the undertaking as surety by the hand of officer or attorney authorized thereto by a resolution of its board of directors, a certified copy of which, under its corporate seal, shall be on file with the clerk of the circuit court and the sheriff of the county, and such authority shall be deemed in full force and effect until revoked in writing by notice to said clerk and sheriff.
Structure Mississippi Code
§ 99-5-3. Form of bail; taken in open court by entry on minutes
§ 99-5-5. Bonds to be made payable to state; effect; expiration and renewal
§ 99-5-7. Fidelity or surety insurance company may give bail
§ 99-5-13. Court may make adjustments to excessive or insufficient bail
§ 99-5-15. Duty of officer to release defendant from custody; approval of sureties
§ 99-5-17. Sheriff to return bail-bond to clerk
§ 99-5-19. Person who takes insufficient bail-bond, etc., to stand special bail
§ 99-5-21. Bond good though it does not describe offense
§ 99-5-29. Surety may cause arrest of principal by officer
§ 99-5-31. Mittimus in bailable cases to fix the bail
§ 99-5-33. Accused committed to prison if injured party is dangerously wounded
§ 99-5-35. When prisoner charged with capital offense entitled to bail