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Section 44-1-35 - Time allowed for making return and producing prisoner.

44-1-35. [Time allowed for making return and producing prisoner.]

If the writ is returnable at a certain day, such return shall be made, and such prisoner produced at the time and place specified therein; if he is returnable forthwith, and the place is within twenty miles of the place of service, such return shall be made and such prisoner produced within twenty-four hours, and the like time shall be allowed for every additional twenty miles.