Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Article 2.18. Custody Of Prisoners

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Art. 2.18. [42] [50] [51] CUSTODY OF PRISONERS.  When a 
prisoner is committed to jail by warrant from a magistrate or court, 
he shall be placed in jail by the sheriff.  It is a violation of duty 
on the part of any sheriff to permit a defendant so committed to 
remain out of jail, except that he may, when a defendant is 
committed for want of bail, or when he arrests in a bailable case, 
give the person arrested a reasonable time to procure bail;  but he 
shall so guard the accused as to prevent escape.

Acts 1965, 59th Leg., vol. 2, p. 317, ch. 722, eff. Jan. 1, 1966.             

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