West Virginia Statutes
§ 62-7-9 — Same -- Immunity of guards from arrest
West Virginia § 62-7-9
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W. Va. Code § 62-7-9 (2026).
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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.
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Continuance§ 62-10-1
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West Virginia § 62-7-9, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/statute/wv/62/62-7-9.