Code of Virginia - Title 18.2 Crimes And Offenses Generally - Section 18.2-476 Officers, etc., willfully and deliberately permitting prisoner not convicted of or charged with fel...

§ 18.2-476. Officers, etc., willfully and deliberately permitting prisoner not convicted of or charged with fel...

If any sheriff, jailer or other officer, or any guard or other person summoned or employed by such sheriff, jailer or other officer, willfully and deliberately permits a prisoner convicted of or charged with an offense not a felony, to escape from his custody, or willfully refuses to receive into his custody a person lawfully committed thereto, he shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.

(Code 1950, § 18.1-287; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1983, c. 360.)

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