- (a) When a prisoner is confined by virtue of any process directed to the sheriff and such process is required to be returned to the issuing court, such sheriff shall keep a copy of such process and return. Such copy, duly certified by such sheriff, shall be presumptive evidence of such sheriff's right to retain such prisoner in custody.
- (b) All instruments of every kind, or attested copies thereof, by which a prisoner is committed to or released from the custody of the sheriff, shall be regularly endorsed and filed and safely kept in a paper or electronic form by such sheriff, or such sheriff's deputy acting as the keeper of the jail.
- (c) The records required to be retained in this section shall be delivered to the successor of the officers having charge of the prisoner.
G.S. 1868, ch. 53, § 11; R.S. 1923, 19-1911; L. 2023, ch. 83, § 7; July 1.