Section 23-24-16 - Arrest without a warrant.
23-24-16. 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 magistrate with all practicable speed and complaint must be made against him under oath setting forth the ground for the arrest as in § 23-24-15; and thereafter his answer shall be heard as if he had been arrested on a warrant.
Source: SDC 1939, § 34.1713; SL 1953, ch 200, § 14.