§14-6-48. Failure of sheriff to maintain account book, etc.

Any sheriff who fails to enter into a book, to be kept by him for that purpose, any account paid him by the state for feeding prisoners, or to keep such book in his office as one of the public records thereof, or to lay the same before the grand jury at each term of the circuit court held in his county or, upon the expiration of his term of office, to turn the same over to his successor as required by law is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Code 1886, §3928; Code 1896, §5113; Code 1907, §7473; Code 1923, §5065; Code 1940, T. 45, §151.)