Conn. Gen. Stat. § 54-170

Current with legislation from 2024 effective through June 4, 2024.
Section 54-170 - 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 shall be taken before such a judge with all practicable speed and complaint shall be made against him under oath setting forth the ground for the arrest as in section 54-169; and thereafter his answer shall be heard as if he had been arrested on a warrant.

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 54-170

(1957, P.A. 362, S. 14; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 196.)

Cited. 186 Conn. 404; 190 Conn. 631; 193 Conn. 270.