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.
History:
[(19-517) Cr. Prac. 1864, sec. 117, p. 228; R.S., R.C., & C.L., sec. 7530; C.S., sec. 8721; I.C.A., sec. 19-517; am. 1969, ch. 79, sec. 5, p. 230.]