US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  19
                              CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
                                  CHAPTER 5
                       COMPLAINT AND WARRANT OF ARREST
    19-517.  OFFENSES TRIABLE IN ANOTHER COUNTY -- PROCEEDINGS. When a
complaint is laid before a magistrate of the commission of a public offense,
triable in another county of the state, but showing that defendant is in the
county where the complaint is laid, the same proceedings must be had as
prescribed in this chapter, except that the warrant must require the defendant
to be taken before the magistrate most accessible to the witnesses for the
prosecution, but in the county in which the offense is triable, and the
complaint must be delivered by the magistrate to the officer to whom the
warrant is delivered.