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Title 17. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Chapter 13. CRIMINAL EXTRADITION · Article 2. UNIFORM CRIMINAL EXTRADITION ACT

17-13-34. Arrest without warrant of a person charged with a crime in another state.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. The arrest of a person may be lawfully made 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 must be taken before a judge or magistrate with all practicable speed and complaint must be made against him under oath, setting forth the ground for the arrest, as provided in Code Section 17-13-33; and thereafter the answer of the accused shall be heard as if he had been arrested on a warrant.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1951, p. 726, § 14; Ga. L. 1990, p. 8, § 17.

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Text read from t17-(v15)-2020-pdf.pdf, Volume V15, 2020 edition, page 1361; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 0b0d45f9c609.