TITLE 19

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 45

PROCEEDINGS AGAINST FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE

19-4514.  Arrest without a warrant. The arrest of a person may be lawfully made 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 (1) year. When so arrested the accused must be taken before a judge or magistrate with all practicable speed, and complaint must be made against him under oath setting forth the grounds for the arrest as provided in section 19-4513, Idaho Code, and thereafter his answer shall be heard as if he had been arrested on a warrant.

History:

[19-4514, added 1979, ch. 228, sec. 3, p. 627; am. 2008, ch. 136, sec. 14, p. 389.]