The court to which the committing magistrate shall return the depositions and statement, or in which an indictment or information or an appeal is pending, or to which a judgment on appeal is remitted to be carried into effect, may, by an order to be entered on its minutes, direct the arrest of the defendant and commitment to the officer to whose custody the defendant was committed at the time of giving bail, and the defendant’s detention until legally discharged, in the following cases: 1. When, by reason of the defendant’s failure to appear, the defendant has incurred a forfeiture of bail, or of money deposited instead thereof, as provided in NRS 178.506. 2. When it satisfactorily appears to the court that the defendant’s bail, or either of them, are dead, or insufficient, or have removed from the State. 3. Upon an indictment being found or information filed in the cases provided in NRS 173.175. (Added to NRS by 1967, 1454)
Nevada Legal Code