Cite as: 21 CNCA § 834

Every person who, either solely or as a member of a court, in the execution of a judgment, order or process, knowingly recommits, imprisons or restrains of his liberty, for the same cause, any person who has been discharged from a penal institution upon a writ of deliverance, is guilty of a crime; and, in addition to the punishment prescribed therefor, he forfeits to the party aggrieved One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), to be recovered in a civil action.

Historical Data

LA 10–90, eff. November 13, 1990.