US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  19
                              CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
                                  CHAPTER 27
                                  EXECUTION
    19-2704.  DELIVERY OF DEFENDANT TO PENITENTIARY GUARD. If judgment is for
imprisonment in the state prison, or for the infliction of the death penalty,
the sheriff of the county must, upon receipt of the certified copy of
judgment, hold the prisoner in his custody until demand for such prisoner is
made upon him by the duly authorized guard of said prison, who may be sent to
convey such prisoner to the state prison. When such demand is made upon the
sheriff by said guard, the sheriff shall deliver the prisoner and said copy of
the judgment to said guard, and take a receipt from said guard for the
prisoner and said copy of the judgment.