Interference with writ prohibited. Any person who shall fail or refuse to respond to a writ or to an order issued under
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
§ 6505. Interference with writ prohibited. Any person who shall fail or refuse to respond to a writ or to an order issued under
this chapter, or who shall change the place of detention of any person for the purpose
of defeating the writ, or shall, without express authorization from a judge of a court
of record, recommit on substantially the same facts and circumstances any person set
at large upon a habeas corpus, or shall do any act for the purpose of defeating the
writ or the order, commits a misdemeanor of the second degree.
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