{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-16-9-240","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 16-9-240","heading":"Taking of consideration or the like by sheriff or other officer for not performing duties.","body":"If a sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable or other officer authorized to serve legal process receives from the defendant or any other person any money or other valuable thing as a consideration, reward or inducement for omitting or delaying to arrest a defendant or to carry him before a magistrate, for delaying to take a person to prison, for postponing the sale of property under an execution or for omitting or delaying to perform any duty pertaining to his office he shall be punished by a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars.","path":["Title 16 - CRIMES AND OFFENSES","CHAPTER 9 Offenses Against Public Justice","ARTICLE 3 Bribery, Corruption of Jurors and the Like"],"source_url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t16c009.php","current_through":"2025 Session of the General Assembly","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T06:44:24Z","sha256":"e4e116fa1360fa4e0297003d43d6c5ac2b304d0e5530b9d3c0e05e289f5609e1","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-16-9-230","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-16-9-250"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}