Statutes > Arkansas Statutes > Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts > Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally > Chapter 90 - Judgment And Sentence Generally > Subchapter 4 - Execution of Sentence -- Confinement > § 16-90-403 - Power of sheriff to prevent escape, etc.

§ 16-90-403 - Power of sheriff to prevent escape, etc.

16-90-403. Power of sheriff to prevent escape, etc.

In conveying the defendant to the penitentiary, the sheriff shall have all the powers of preventing an escape, of resisting an effort to rescue the defendant, of recapturing the defendant, and of summoning persons to his or her aid that the sheriff would have in executing a warrant of arrest in his or her county.