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2016 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 25 - Military, Civil Defense and Veterans Affairs
CHAPTER 1 - MILITARY CODE
Section 25-1-2970. Releasing prisoner without proper authority.

SC Code § 25-1-2970 (2016) What's This?

Any person subject to the code who, without proper authority, releases any prisoner committed to his charge, or who through neglect or design suffers any prisoner to escape, may be punished as a court-martial may direct, whether or not the prisoner was committed in strict compliance with law.

HISTORY: Former Section 25-1-2970 [1950 (46) 1881; 1952 Code Section 44-202; 1962 Code Section 44-199; 1964 (53) 2241] recodified as Section 25-1-2750 by 1984 Act No. 378; New Section 25-1-2970 En by 1984 Act No. 378, Section 61; 1985 Act No. 84, Section 21.

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