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                                  TITLE  19
                              CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
                                  CHAPTER 15
                                 ARRAIGNMENT
    19-1507.  BAIL. The defendant, when arrested under a warrant for an
offense not bailable, must be held in custody of the sheriff of the county in
which the indictment is found, unless admitted to bail after an examination
upon a writ of habeas corpus; but if the offense is bailable, there must be
added to the body of the bench warrant a direction to the following effect,
"or, if he requires it, that you take him before any magistrate in that
county, or in the county in which you arrest him, that he may give bail to
answer to the indictment"; and the court, upon directing it to issue, must fix
the amount of bail, and an endorsement must be made thereon and signed by the
clerk, to the following effect: "The defendant is to be admitted to bail in
the sum of .... dollars."