99-29-7 - Bonds to be returned to circuit court and docketed on criminal docket; duty of certain officers to put bond in suit.
§ 99-29-7. Bonds to be returned to circuit court and docketed on criminal docket; duty of certain officers to put bond in suit.
All bonds taken shall be returned to the circuit court, and shall be docketed on the criminal docket of the circuit court by the clerk thereof, and shall be brought forward from term to term until the expiration of the time for which same is given, and there shall be no exemptions allowed against liability on such bonds. And it is hereby made the duty of the district attorney and the circuit judge to give diligent attention to all such bonds, and to place the same in suit whenever it shall appear that the said bond has been forfeited, and it is made the duty of the justice of the peace or mayor or police to inform the district attorney immediately whenever they shall discover or have good reason to believe that said bond has been forfeited.
Sources: Codes, 1906, § 5060; Hemingway's 1917, § 3337; 1930, § 3477; 1942, § 2671.