Sec. 123.
A sheriff, coroner, constable, peace officer, or any other officer authorized to serve process
or arrest or apprehend offenders against criminal law who shall receive from a defendant or
from any other person any money or other valuable thing or any service or promise to pay or
give money or to perform or omit to perform any act as a consideration, reward, or
inducement, for omitting or delaying to arrest any defendant, or to carry him or her before a
magistrate, or for delaying to take any person to prison, or for postponing the sale of any
property under an execution, or for omitting or delaying to perform any duty pertaining to his
or her office, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 6
months or a fine of not more than $750.00. However, if that defendant is charged with an
offense against the criminal laws of this state, an officer convicted under this section may be
punished by any fine or by any term of imprisonment or both a fine and imprisonment, within
the limits fixed by the statute that the defendant is charged with having violated.§ 750.123Officer omitting duty for reward
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