West Virginia Code § 62-7-9

Same -- Immunity of guards from arrest
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All guards while proceeding to the place where a prisoner is confined for the purpose of
removing him to the penitentiary or other place, and while engaged in such removal, shall be
privileged from arrest except for felony and, breach of the peace, such privilege to cover one
day for each two hundred miles traveled by railroad and one day for each fifty miles traveled
by other conveyances. e

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