The county coroner shall be keeper of the jail when the sheriff is imprisoned or absent from the county leaving no deputy. History. Orig. Code 1863, § 564; Code 1868, § 628; Code 1873, § 587; Code 1882, § 587; Penal Code 1895, § 1122; Penal Code 1910, § 1151; Code 1933, § 77-105.
When coroner to act as keeper of jail
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