South Carolina Statutes
§ 23-17-80 — Punishment for permitting escape of convicted criminal.
South Carolina·Title 23 LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PUBLIC SAFETY·Ch. 17 LIABILITIES OF SHERIFFS AND DEPUTY SHERIFFS
If any sheriff, deputy sheriff, jailer or other officer wilfully suffer a prisoner in his custody under conviction or under any criminal charge not capital to escape, he shall suffer the like punishment and penalties as the prisoner suffered to escape was sentenced to, or would be liable to suffer, upon conviction of the crime or offense wherewith he stood charged.
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Legislative History
HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 53-218; 1952 Code SECTION 53-218; 1942 Code SECTION 3538; 1932 Code SECTIONS 1533, 3538; Civ. C. '22 SECTION 2081; Cr. C. '22 SECTION 480; Civ. C. '12 SECTION 1188; Civ. C. '02 SECTION 863; G. S. 682; R. S. 742; 1839 (11) 46; 1869 (14) 309.
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