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 aaeea, the dersndsnt must be delivered .or other peace of ricer. In rslony

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 sems to him. end to deliver the

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 of rsnlae from the sherlrf. ‘Ihe eherlff right my either serve the aaplaa pereonaily or hare the same eorred under hla dlrrotlon.

Very truly yaw8 /I/ Lloyd ArmHxong Bp Assistant