Mittimus and discharge warrants preserved and turned over to successor sheriff.

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-25-55
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All warrants, writs, orders, process, and precepts of any kind, or the attested copies thereof, by which any prisoner may be committed to or enlarged from any jail, shall be filed in their order of time, and kept by the sheriff. Upon the death, removal, resignation, or expiration of office of a sheriff, all of such warrants, writs, orders, process, or precepts, or the attested copies thereof, shall be delivered to his successor in office, on demand by him made, under the penalty of Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00), to be recovered of the sheriff going out of office, and his sureties, by motion before the circuit court of the county, after five days’ notice thereof.

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