2017 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXVII CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
Chapter 544 Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail
Section 544.260 Arrest of person, where tried.

Universal Citation: MO Rev Stat § 544.260 (2017)

Effective 28 Aug 1939

Title XXXVII CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

Chapter 544

544.260. Arrest of person, where tried. — Persons arrested under any warrant for any offense shall, when no provision is otherwise made, be brought before the associate circuit judge who issued the warrant, or if he be absent or his office be vacant, or if he be not authorized to act within the county in which the offense was committed, then before the nearest associate circuit judge in such county; and the warrant by virtue of which the arrest was made, with a proper return endorsed thereon and signed by the officer or person making the arrest, shall be delivered to such associate circuit judge.

(RSMo 1939 § 3862)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 3472; 1919 § 3817; 1909 § 5025

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