The sheriff of any county shall receive and keep any prisoner committed by a justice of the peace according to the order of commitment.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 65, art 2 (75); 1871, § 1324; 1880, § 2219; 1892, § 4141; 1906, § 4692; Hemingway's 1917, § 3109; 1930, § 3339; 1942, § 4264.
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