The judges of the Supreme, circuit and chancery courts and of the court of appeals are conservators of the peace throughout the state, and each judge of the county court and every justice court judge is such within his county.Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 328; 1871, § 2821; 1880, § 3112; 1892, § 1460; 1906, § 1533; Hemingway's 1917, § 1295; 1930, § 1320; 1942, § 2568; Laws, 1996, ch. 385, § 1, eff. 7/1/1996.
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