Arrest without a warrant.

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 548.141
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548.141. Arrest without a 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 associate circuit judge with all practicable speed and complaint must be made against him under oath setting forth the ground for the arrest as in section 548.131 ; and thereafter his answer shall be heard as if he had been arrested on a warrant. (L. 1953 p. 425 § 14)
Source: Open US Law by Vaquill AI (CC BY 4.0)URL: https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=548.141Fetched: 10/17/2026