2009 Alabama Code
Title 36 — PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES.
Chapter 22 — SHERIFFS.
Section 36-22-8 Sheriff to maintain record book as to prisoners received into county jail; contents thereof.

Section 36-22-8

Sheriff to maintain record book as to prisoners received into county jail; contents thereof.

The sheriff must keep, in his office and subject to the inspection of the public during office hours, a well-bound book, to be procured at the expense of the county, in which he must enter a description of each prisoner received into the county jail, showing the name, age, sex, color and any other distinguishing marks, together with the charge for which such prisoner is held, the order and date of commitment and the order and date of release.

(Code 1896, §3740; Code 1907, §5872; Code 1923, §10198; Code 1940, T. 54, §17.)

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