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Statutes > Mississippi > Title-99 > 5 > 99-5-11§ 99-5-11. Justices of the peace may take recognizance or bond; certificate of default; alias warrant.
All justices of the peace and all other conservators of the peace are authorized, whenever a person is brought before them charged with any offense not capital for which bail is allowed by law, to take the recognizance or bond of such person, with sufficient sureties, in such penalty as the justice or conservator of the peace may require, for his appearance before such justice or conservator for an examination of his case at some future day. And if the person thus recognized or thus giving bond, fail to appear at the appointed time, it shall be the duty of the justice or conservator to return the recognizance or bond, with his certificate of default, to the court having jurisdiction of the case, and a recovery may be had therein by scire facias, as in other cases of forfeiture. The justice or other conservator shall also issue an alias warrant for the defaulter.
Sources: Codes, 1871, § 2874; 1880, § 3044; 1892, § 1397; 1906, § 1469; Hemingway's 1917, § 1227; 1930, § 1249; 1942, § 2492.
