Section 99-3-15 - Escaped offender may be pursued and retaken without warrant

If an offender escape or be rescued, the person from whose possession or custody he escaped or was rescued, may immediately pursue and retake him at any time and in any county without warrant.Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 278; 1871, § 2778; 1880, § 3028; 1892, § 1377; 1906, § 1449; Hemingway's 1917, § 1206; 1930, § 1229; 1942, § 2472.