2017 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXVII CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
Chapter 544 Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail
Section 544.540 Court to fix conditions for release, when.

Universal Citation: MO Rev Stat § 544.540 (2017)

Effective 28 Aug 1972

Title XXXVII CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

Chapter 544

544.540. Court to fix conditions for release, when. — If the defendant is not arrested or in custody during the term at which an indictment for felony is returned, the court must fix the conditions for release as provided in section 544.455 required of the defendant, and the clerk must endorse the conditions on the warrant; but if no order fixing the conditions for release has* been made, the sheriff may present the warrant to the judge of the court, and such judge may thereupon endorse the conditions for release required; or if the judge is not in the county, the clerk may fix the conditions for release.

(RSMo 1939 § 3963, A.L. 1972 H.B. 1160)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 3574; 1919 § 3917; 1909 § 5124

*Word "have" appears in original rolls.

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