Any person within the city who shall hinder, prevent or obstruct any officer or other person charged with the execution of any warrant or other process issued under the provisions of any ordinance of the city, in arresting any person for whose arrest the warrant or other process may have been issued, or in arresting any person for any treason, felony or breach of the peace, committed in the officer’s presence, or shall rescue or attempt to rescue the person from the custody of the officer or person lawfully assisting the officer, or shall aid, abet or assist any person so arrested, directly or indirectly, to escape from the custody of the officer or person assisting the officer, or shall harbor or conceal any person for whose arrest a warrant or other process shall have been issued so as to prevent the person's discovery and arrest, after notice or knowledge of the issuing of the warrant or other process, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(1985 Code, § 14-2) Penalty, see § 10.99
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see S.C. Code § 16-5-50