Delaware Statutes

§ 5903 — Arrest upon complaint; escaped persons

Delaware § 5903

JurisdictionDelaware

Title11

PartProcedure in Particular Courts

Ch. 59JUSTICES OF THE PEACE

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Bluebook

Del. Code tit. 11, § 5903 (2026).

Text

Every justice of the peace shall cause to be arrested, on proper complaint, all persons found within the justice’s county charged with any offense and all persons who, after committing any offense in such county, shall escape out of the same.

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Legislative History

Code 1852, § 2035; Code 1915, § 3976; Code 1935, § 4476; 11 Del. C. 1953, § 5906; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1

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