§ 42-383. Escape without force or violence or setting fire to jail.

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If any person lawfully confined in jail or lawfully in the custody of any court or officer thereof or of any law-enforcement officer on a charge or conviction of a misdemeanor escapes, otherwise than by force or violence or by setting fire to the jail, he shall be guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor.

(Code 1992, § 15-9)

State Law reference— Similar provisions, Code of Virginia, § 18.2-479.

(Code 1992, § 15-9)

State law reference

Similar provisions, Code of Virginia, § 18.2-479.

                    
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