{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-17-13-34","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 17-13-34","heading":"Arrest without warrant of a person charged with a crime in another state.","body":"The arrest of a person may be lawfully made by any peace officer or 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 provided in Code Section 17-13-33; and thereafter the answer of the accused shall be heard as if he had been arrested on a warrant.","path":["TITLE 17 Criminal Procedure","CHAPTER 13 Criminal Extradition","Article 2 Uniform Criminal Extradition Act"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.17.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"f8dd7026cb0542e94007c1779eeb554b935603fb0744d147d9f70cf6790e389e","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-17-13-33","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-17-13-35"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}