2011 Code of Virginia
Title 19.2 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.
Chapter 8 Extradition of Criminals (19.2-84 thru 19.2-118)
19.2-100 Arrest without warrant
19.2-100. Arrest without warrant.
The arrest of a person may be lawfully made also by any peace officer or 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 a judge, magistrate or other officer authorized to issue criminal warrants in this Commonwealth with all practicable speed and complaint made against him under oath setting forth the ground for the arrest as in the preceding section; and thereafter his answer shall be heard as if he had been arrested on a warrant.
(Code 1950, 19.1-64; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.)
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