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     629.14 Arrest without 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.  When arrested the 
 accused must be taken before a judge with all practicable speed 
 and complaint must be made against the accused under oath 
 setting forth the ground for the arrest as in section 629.13.  
 Thereafter the answer shall be heard as if the accused had been 
 arrested on a warrant.  

    HIST: (10547-24) 1939 c 240 s 14; 1983 c 359 s 122; 1985 c 265 
 art 10 s 1; 1986 c 444 

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