The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-10-04
AN ORDIN ANCE
Defining Offenses Against Public
Justice, and Prohibiting Same.

DC IL uiuai'icu u! Nuo wy CounCll OF
the City of Waco,
Section. l. Any officer of the city
of Waco, having the legal custody Of
a person accused or convicted OF
misdemeanor who will ully permits
such person to escape or to be res.
cued shall be fined not exceeding Que
thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. Any officer Of the City of
Waco having tho legal custody Of
person accused or convicted of mis-
demeanor, and who negligently per
mlts such person to escape or be res
cued shall be punished by fine not
exceeding five hundred dollars
Sec 3 Any officer of the CITY of
Waco who wllfully refuses or fails
from neglect to execute any lawful
process in his hands, requiring the
arrest Of a person accused of misde
meanor, whereby the accused escapes,
or who willfully refuses to receive
INTO the city Jail under his charge, o.
to receive into bis custody any per
son lawfully committed to such Jail
on an accusation of a misdemeauor, or
lawfully committed to his custody on
such accusation, shall be punished by
a fine no. exceeding five hundred dol.
lars
Sec 4 If any private person ap
pointed with his own consent to exc
cute warrant Of arrest issued by any
proper officer of the City of Waco,
shall be guilty of any one of the of
lenses heretofore enumerated in this
chapter, he shall be punished in the
same manner as an officer in like
case
Sec 5. If any person shall convey
or cause to be conveyed into the city
Jail of the City of Waco any disguise,
instrument, arms, or any other thing
useful to aid any prisoner in escaping
with intent to facilitate the escape of
prisoner lawfully detained in such
jail, upon an accusation of misde-
meanor, he shall be fined not exceeding
five hundr, d dollars
Sec. 6. If any person shall will
fully aid any prisoner to escape from
the custody OF an officer, 10y whom be
is IL ally detained In custody on an
ACCUSE alton of misdemeanor, by doing
any act calculated to effect that OBJ
ject, he shall be punished by fue
not exceeding five hundred dollars;
and if in aiding in the escape, he
make use of arms he shall be pun
ished by a fine not exceeding one
thousand dollars
Sec z The offenscs enumerated in
Articles or Sections five and SIX are
compiled without the actual escape Of
the prisoner; and person accused Of
any of said otfenses may be represented
and tried, although the person. escap
ing be retaken, and although after
being retaken he is brought to trial
and acquitted.
Sec = If any person in the City of
Waco shall wiIfully oppose or resist
an off GER in executing or attempting
TO execute any lawful warrant tor the
arrest OF another person, In case of
miedemeanor or in arresting or at.
emptlng to arrest any person without
warrant where the law authorizes or
requires the arrest to be made without
warrant, he shall DO punished by
fine of not less than twenty five nor
more than five hundred dollars; and
if arms be used, by fine not less than
fifty nor mole than one thousand dol
lars.
SEQ 9. If any person being called
on by the mayor, marshal, or police
fficer, shall TAIL or refuse to aid such
olticer In any matter in which by law
be may he rightfully called to AID OF
assist in the execution of duty 10
cum bent upon such mayor, marshal
or police officer, he shall be punished
by fine not exceeding one hundred
dollars.
Sec 10 If the party against whom
a le- al warrant of ARE st is directed 10
a mlsdemeanor case shall 10 the City
OF Waco resist Its execution when at
tempted by any person legally author
lied to execute the same, he shall be
fned not exceeding five hundred dol
lars. And if arms be used in making
he resistance, In such a manner Ms
would make him liable for an assault
and battery or an aggravated assault
ard battery. he shall receive the
highest penalty fixed by ordinance
for the commission Of such Otfe lse in
ordinary cases.