2011 Wyoming Statutes
TITLE 7 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 12 - APPEAL, EXCEPTIONS AND NEW TRIAL
7-12-201. Disposition of defendant.
(a) If the judgment of conviction of any defendant committed to a state penal institution is reversed on appeal, the clerk of the supreme court shall forward to the department of corrections and to the administrator of the institution a certified copy of the court's mandate directing the defendant's discharge or a new trial.
(b) Upon receipt of the mandate the director of the department of corrections shall direct the administrator either to discharge the defendant or return the defendant to the county jail of the county in which the defendant was convicted to be held in the custody of the sheriff pending a new trial.
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