As Amended
SEC. 99-13-3. Disposition of insane or feeble-minded offender brought before conservator of the peace.
When any prisoner, or any person charged with a crime or delinquency, shall be brought before any conservator of the peace, and in the course of the investigation it shall appear that said person was insane when the offense was committed, and still is insane, or was feeble-minded to such an extent as not to be responsible for his or her act or omission at the time when the act or omission charged was made, he shall not be discharged, but the conservator of the peace shall remand the prisoner to custody, and forthwith report the case to the chancellor or clerk of the chancery court, whose duty it shall be to proceed with the case according to the law provided for persons of unsound mind or feeble-minded persons.
SOURCES: Codes, 1880, Sec. 3139; 1892, Sec. 1466; 1906, Sec. 1538; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 1300; Hemingway's 1921 Supp, Sec. 5728x; 1930, Secs. 1325, 7287; 1942, Secs. 2573, 6777; Laws, 1920, ch. 210.