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Revised Statues - Chapter 29 Criminal Procedure
29-501: Examination; adjournment; period; prisoner; how sustained and kept.
If it shall become necessary for any just cause to adjourn the examination of any person brought before the magistrate as set forth in sections 29-401 to 29-414, it shall be lawful for such magistrate to adjourn such examination and commit such person, from time to time, for safekeeping to the jail of the county until the cause of delay is removed, and no longer; PROVIDED, the whole time of such confinement in the jail shall not exceed four days; PROVIDED FURTHER, the officer having in custody any such person may, by written order of the magistrate, detain such person in custody in some secure and convenient place other than the jail, to be designated by the magistrate in his order, not exceeding four days; and it shall be the duty of the officer, in whose custody any person shall be detained as above, to provide for the sustenance of such prisoner while in custody.
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