820.14 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, but when so arrested the accused must be taken before a judge or magistrate with all practicable speed and complaint must be made against the accused under oath setting forth the ground for the arrest as in section 820.13; and thereafter the accused’s answer shall be heard as if the accused had been arrested on a warrant.
[C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §759.14; C79, 81, §820.14]
2008 Acts, ch 1032, §90