[Arrest and detention of escaped prisoners.]

All persons [Any person] who shall have been committed to jail, under any criminal charge, and shall before the final trial of the cause for which he was imprisoned, or before the completion of the sentence, in case he shall be convicted in the court in which the charge may be pending, escape from jail, and any time thereafter shall be found in any county, precinct or demarcation of this state, he shall be arrested and imprisoned again, until the judgment of the court may be had or the sentence fully complied with. History: Laws 1861-1862, p. 14; C.L. 1865, ch. 61, § 48; C.L. 1884, § 832; C.L. 1897, § 1226; Code 1915, § 3060; C.S. 1929, § 75-129; 1941 Comp., § 40-103; 1953 Comp., § 39-1-3.