Sec. 54-170. Arrest without warrant.
Sec. 54-170. Arrest without warrant. The arrest of a person may be lawfully
made also by any peace officer or a private person, without a warrant, upon reasonable
information that the accused stands charged in the courts of a state with a crime punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, but when so arrested the
accused shall be taken before such a judge with all practicable speed and complaint
shall be made against him under oath setting forth the ground for the arrest as in section
54-169; and thereafter his answer shall be heard as if he had been arrested on a warrant.
(1957, P.A. 362, S. 14; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 196.)
History: 1959 act deleted reference to trial justice.
See note to Sec. 54-157.
Cited. 186 C. 404. Cited. 190 C. 631. Cited. 193 C. 270.