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HM~ooillO, Texas
mar Sirs OplQlQn no. o-1616
Ret Ospirs rfter IstddLatmentin Tclony
aare shall be iseued by tha o1erk
ana pleoetl in the hand8 or the
mritr ror serom.
TM8 till aukknowledge rsoelpt oi your bttew
or cotobsr 21, 1939, in w&lob ycm subrblt ror all oplnicqi
of thla Department, the queatlon of whether the sheriff
or the coarrtrble haa the right to exewte 8 capiaa in a
r&my aaes after an lndlotment has been returned.
ROD. R. T. l%rlm, r’ege 2
*A ~asplrs~ is a writ leeued by the
court or olerk, end direoted ‘To any sheriff
of the State of Toxaa, * oatmsndlng him to
arrest l person eoouaed of an offanse end
brlq him Before the oourt forthwith, or on
a day or at a term etated In the writ.”
Atitlals 443 OS the Code of Crl~Anel ProOadurb
reader
‘*A oeplss shall be lmedletely leoued
by t!m dlatrlot clerk upon eeoh lndlctment
for felony praaented, and ehsll be delivered
by the olerk or nmlled to the shtrlfi of the
oounty where the isher (defendant) resldea
or la to be found.* (analosure aura)
Artlcrie 453, Dode of Orlmlnal Procedure provides
for the arrest of B defendant under a oepies and reeds;
‘*h oaplss map be exeauted by sny con-
stable .or other peace of ricer. In rslony
aaeea, the dersndsnt must be delivered forth-
with to the eheriff of the aounty where the
arrest 1s mabe, together wl th the writ under
whloh he wae teken,”
T%ua, it eieerlg appems under Artlolea 441 nnd
143, eupra, thrt it la the duty of the alerk to dlreat e
oaplas aster ~lndlotment to the sheriff end to deliver the
sems to him.
Artlole 453i mwe, olothee the constab
with the authority to mrve’n oaples, .but in view of
the duty 1 oaed upon ,the olerk to deliver the s(uI
to the clhsr
? ff, ,the oonnteble met maeasarlly derive
his right of rsnlae from the sherlrf. ‘Ihe eherlff
my either serve the aaplaa pereonaily or hare the
same eorred under hla dlrrotlon.
Very truly yaw8
Bp /I/ Lloyd ArmHxong
Assistant