If any private person having a prisoner in his keeping, arrested on suspicion of felony or other offense, and the prisoner who is so arrested escape by the wilful act or negligence of the person having him in custody, then the person from whom such prisoner so escaped shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned in the county jail not longer than one year, or both.Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 91; 1871, § 2556; 1880, § 2796; 1892, § 1073; 1906, § 1153; Hemingway's 1917, § 880; 1930, § 906; 1942, § 2135.
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