2022 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure
Chapter 548 - Extradition
Section 548.141 - Arrest without a warrant.

Universal Citation: MO Rev Stat § 548.141 (2022)

Effective - 28 Aug 1953

548.141. Arrest without a 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 must be taken before a judge or associate circuit judge with all practicable speed and complaint must be made against him under oath setting forth the ground for the arrest as in section 548.131; and thereafter his answer shall be heard as if he had been arrested on a warrant.

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(L. 1953 p. 425 § 14)

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