19.2-100 - Arrest without warrant. - Virginia Statutes

§ 19.2-100. Arrest without warrant.

The arrest of a person may be lawfully made also by any peace officer orprivate person without a warrant upon reasonable information that the accusedstands charged in the courts of a state with a crime punishable by death orimprisonment for a term exceeding one year. But when so arrested the accusedshall be taken before a judge, magistrate or other officer authorized toissue criminal warrants in this Commonwealth with all practicable speed andcomplaint made against him under oath setting forth the ground for the arrestas in the preceding section; and thereafter his answer shall be heard as ifhe had been arrested on a warrant.

(Code 1950, § 19.1-64; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.)