TITLE 19

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 2

PREVENTION OF PUBLIC OFFENSES

19-208.  Warrant of arrest. If it appears from the depositions that there is just reason to fear the commission of the offense threatened by the person so informed against, the magistrate must issue a warrant, directed generally to the sheriff of the county or any constable, marshal or policeman in the state, reciting the substance of the information, and commanding the officer forthwith to arrest the person informed of and bring him before the magistrate.

History:

[(19-208) Cr. Prac. 1864, sec. 21, p. 216; R.S., R.C., & C.L., sec. 7382; C.S., sec. 8632; I.C.A., sec. 19-208.]