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.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 62. Criminal Procedure
Article 7. Execution of Sentences; Stays
§62-7-2. Period of Stay When Writ of Error Awarded
§62-7-7. Removal of Convicts to Penitentiary -- Generally
§62-7-8. Same -- Prevention of Rescue or Escape; Additional Guards
§62-7-9. Same -- Immunity of Guards From Arrest