The provisions of this article shall apply to convicts in the penitentiary, excepting such convicts as have escaped from the penitentiary, or been concerned in any revolt whereby any convict has escaped, and shall operate back to the commencement of any such sentence of such convict.
History: Laws 1889, ch. 76, § 50; C.L. 1897, § 3539; Code 1915, § 5074; C.S. 1929, § 130-162; 1941 Comp., § 45-156; 1953 Comp., § 42-1-56.
ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Compiler's notes. — The 1915 Code compilers deleted "now" after "shall apply to convicts" and substituted "this article" for "this act." The words "this article" refer to Code 1915, ch. CI, art. 1, being §§ 5018 to 5087.