KRS 70.610: Guards for safekeeping prisoner.

When the circuit judge believes that the safekeeping of a prisoner confined in his county

under a charge of felony requires that a guard be kept over him, he shall make the order of

record to that effect, and direct the number of guards to be summoned, by whom, and

under whose control they shall be placed. Each guard so summoned and performing duty

shall be allowed one dollar ($1) per day, to be paid out of the county treasury.