2015 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 440 - ESCAPES, FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE, AND EXTRADITION 440.260 Confinement of prisoner en route -- Duty of jailer -- Evidence of extradition.
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440.260
Confinement of prisoner en route -- Duty of jailer -- Evidence of
extradition.
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The officer or persons executing the Governor's warrant of arrest, or the agent of the
demanding state to whom the prisoner may have been delivered may, when
necessary, confine the prisoner in the jail of any county or city through which he
may pass; and the keeper of such jail must receive and safely keep the prisoner until
the officer or person having charge of him is ready to proceed on his route, such
officer or person being chargeable with the expense of keeping.
The officer or agent of a demanding state to whom a prisoner may have been
delivered following extradition proceedings in another state, or to whom a prisoner
may have been delivered after waiving extradition in such other state, and who is
passing through this state with such a prisoner for the purpose of immediately
returning such prisoner to the demanding state may, when necessary, confine the
prisoner in the jail of any county or city through which he may pass; and the keeper
of such jail must receive and safely keep the prisoner until the officer or agent
having charge of him is ready to proceed on his route, such officer or agent,
however, being chargeable with the expense of keeping; provided, however, that
such officer or agent shall produce and show to the keeper of such jail satisfactory
written evidence of the fact that he is actually transporting such prisoner to the
demanding state after a requisition by the executive authority of such demanding
state. Such prisoner shall not be entitled to demand a new requisition while in this
state.
Effective: June 16, 1960
History: Created 1960 Ky. Acts ch. 135, sec. 13, effective June 16, 1960.
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