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Statutes > Missouri > T37 > C544 > 544_100Arrest in another county--procedure.
544.100. If the person against whom any warrant granted byan associate circuit judge, mayor or chief officer of a city ortown shall be issued, escape or be in any other county, it shallbe the duty of any associate circuit judge authorized to issue awarrant in the county in which such offender may be or issuspected to be, on proof of the handwriting of the associatecircuit judge issuing the warrant to endorse his name thereon,and thereupon the offender may be arrested in such county by theofficer bringing such warrant, or any officer within the countywithin which the warrant is so endorsed; and any such warrant maybe executed in any county within this state by the officer towhom it is directed, if the clerk of the county commission of thecounty in which the warrant was issued shall endorse upon orannex to the warrant his certificate, with the seal of saidcommission affixed thereto, that the officer who issued suchwarrant was at the time an acting officer fully authorized toissue the same, and that his signature thereto is genuine.
(RSMo 1939 § 3860, A. 1949 H.B. 2141)Prior revisions: 1929 § 3470; 1919 § 3815; 1909 § 5023
