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MO Rev Stat § 544.197 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 544 - Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail|Section 544.197 - Sections 544.193 to 544.197 not applicable, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1980   544.197. Sections 544.193 to 544.197 not applicable, when. — The provisions of sections 544.193 to 544.197 shall not apply to persons committed to a correctional institution or jail by judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction. ­­-------- (L. 1980 H.B. 982 § 3)
MO Rev Stat § 544.200 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 544 - Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail|Section 544.200 - Officer may break open doors.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   544.200. Officer may break open doors. — To make an arrest in criminal actions, the officer may break open any outer or inner door or window of a dwelling house or other building, or any other enclosure, if, after notice of his office and purpose, he be refused admittance. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3889)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3499; 1919 § 3844; 1909 § 5052  (1968) Held facts justified forcible entry and arrest without warrant. State v. Novak (Mo.), 428 S.W.2d 585.
MO Rev Stat § 544.210 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 544 - Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail|Section 544.210 - Arrests, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   544.210. Arrests, when. — An arrest may be made on any day or at any time of the day or night. If any person arrested escape or be rescued, the person from whose custody he made his escape or was rescued may immediately pursue and retake him at any time and within any place in the state, and may command assistance as in making arrests in other cases. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3961)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3572; 1919 § 3915; 1909 § 5122  CROSS REFERENCE:  Process to preserve peace or to arrest offender, may issue on Sunday, 476.250
MO Rev Stat § 544.216 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 544 - Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail|Section 544.216 - Powers of arrest, arrest without warrant on suspicion persons violating any law of state including infractions, misdemeanors and ordinances, exception — power of municipal officer in unincorporated area.

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   544.216. Powers of arrest, arrest without warrant on suspicion persons violating any law of state including infractions, misdemeanors and ordinances, exception — power of municipal officer in unincorporated area. — Except as otherwise provided in section 544.157, any sheriff or deputy sheriff, any member of the Missouri state highway patrol, and any county or municipal law enforcement officer in this state, except those officers of a political subdivision or municipality having a population of less than two thousand persons or which does not have at least four full-time nonelected peace officers unless such subdivision or municipality has elected to come under and is operating pursuant to the provisions of sections 590.100 to 590.150*, may arrest on view, and without a warrant, any person the officer sees violating or who such officer has reasonable grounds to believe has violated any ordinance or law of this state, including a misdemeanor or infraction, over which such officer has jurisdiction. Peace officers of a municipality shall have arrest powers, as described in this section, upon lands which are leased or owned by the municipality in an unincorporated area. Ordinances enacted by a municipality, owning or leasing lands outside its boundaries, may be enforced by peace officers of the municipality upon such owned or leased lands. The power of arrest authorized by this section is in addition to all other powers conferred upon law enforcement officers, and shall not be construed so as to limit or restrict any other power of a law enforcement officer. ­­-------- (L. 1983 S.B. 72 § 2, A.L. 1986 S.B. 450, A.L. 1993 S.B. 180, A.L. 1996 H.B. 1047, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1665 & 1335 merged with S.B. 745)  *Section 590.150 was repealed by H.B. 80, 2001.  CROSS REFERENCES:  Arrest on suspicion, Kansas City, 84.440  Arrest on suspicion, St. Louis City, 84.090  Failure to execute arrest warrant, penalty, 575.180
MO Rev Stat § 544.218 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 544 - Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail|Section 544.218 - Arrest without warrant, lawful, when.

Effective - 01 Jan 2017   544.218. Arrest without warrant, lawful, when. — An arrest without a warrant by a law enforcement officer, including a uniformed member of the state highway patrol, for a violation of section 577.010 or 577.012 is lawful whenever the arresting officer has reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has violated the section, whether or not the violation occurred in the presence of the arresting officer. ­­-------- (L. 1982 S.B. 513, A.L. 1996 H.B. 1169 & 1271 merged with S.B. 722, A.L. 2010 H.B. 1695, et al., A.L. 2014 S.B. 491)  Transferred 2014; formerly 577.039; Effective 1-01-17
MO Rev Stat § 544.220 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 544 - Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail|Section 544.220 - Conveyance of prisoner through another county.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   544.220. Conveyance of prisoner through another county. — Every officer or other person, who shall have arrested or have in his custody, under the authority of the law of this state, any prisoner who is to be conveyed from one county to another, may carry such prisoner through such parts of any county as shall be in the ordinary route of travel from the place where such prisoner shall have been arrested to the place where he is to be conveyed and delivered, under the process or authority by which such prisoner shall have been arrested or is detained. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 4181)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3791; 1919 § 4137; 1909 § 5342
MO Rev Stat § 544.230 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 544 - Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail|Section 544.230 - Officer not subject to arrest — posse.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   544.230. Officer not subject to arrest — posse. — The officer or person having such prisoner in charge shall not be liable to arrest or civil process while on his route; and he shall have the like power to require any person to aid in securing such prisoner and retaking him if he escape as sheriffs or other officers have in their own county; and a refusal or neglect to render such aid shall be an offense punishable in the same manner as for disobedience to a summons to assist in the execution of process. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 4182)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3792; 1919 § 4138; 1909 § 5343
MO Rev Stat § 544.240 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 544 - Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail|Section 544.240 - Duty of jailer.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   544.240. Duty of jailer. — The jailer of every county through which such prisoner may be taken is required to receive and safely keep such prisoner in the jail of which he has charge, when thereto requested by the officer or person having lawful charge of such prisoner, and to redeliver him on demand of such officer or person. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 4183)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3793; 1919 § 4139; 1909 § 5344
MO Rev Stat § 544.250 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 544 - Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail|Section 544.250 - Preliminary hearing, when required — release, when, what conditions.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   544.250. Preliminary hearing, when required — release, when, what conditions. — No prosecuting or circuit attorney in this state shall file any information charging any person or persons with any felony, until such person or persons shall first have been accorded the right of a preliminary examination before some associate circuit judge in the county where the offense is alleged to have been committed in accordance with this chapter. And if upon such hearing the associate circuit judge shall determine that the alleged offense is one on which the accused may be released, the associate circuit judge may release him as provided in section 544.455 conditioned for his appearance at a time certain before a circuit judge, or associate circuit judge who is specially assigned, and thereafter as directed by the court to answer such charges as may be preferred against him, abide sentence and judgment therein, and not to depart the court without leave; provided, a preliminary examination shall in no case be required where same is waived by the person charged with the crime, or in any case where an information has been substituted for an indictment as authorized by section 545.300. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3893, A.L. 1972 H.B. 1160, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3503; 1919 § 3848; 1909 § 5056  Effective 1-02-79  (1955) Where instrument meeting requirements of information in felony case was filed in magistrate court, it would likely be sufficient as complaint, but, in absence of the filing of an information in circuit court after accused waived preliminary hearing, circuit court had no jurisdiction. State v. McQueen (Mo.), 282 S.W.2d 539. (1960) Although evidence at preliminary hearing may have been scanty it was sufficient and in any event objections based on such insufficiency would not deprive circuit court of jurisdiction of the principal cause and its trial. State v. Hester (Mo.), 331 S.W.2d 535. (1971) Prosecutor has no authority to file an information charging a felony until a magistrate has found that a felony was committed and there was probable cause to believe the prisoner guilty thereof, and, where information substantially varied from complaint, prohibition would lie to prevent prosecution in Circuit Court. State ex rel. Buresh v. Adams (Mo.), 468 S.W.2d 18. (1977) Where complaint charged first degree murder by strangulation, and information charged second degree murder by strangulation and skull fracture, there was not a substantial departure from the complaint. State v. Clark (A.), 546 S.W.2d 455.
MO Rev Stat § 544.260 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 544 - Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail|Section 544.260 - Arrest of person, where tried.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   544.260. Arrest of person, where tried. — Persons arrested under any warrant for any offense shall, when no provision is otherwise made, be brought before the associate circuit judge who issued the warrant, or if he be absent or his office be vacant, or if he be not authorized to act within the county in which the offense was committed, then before the nearest associate circuit judge in such county; and the warrant by virtue of which the arrest was made, with a proper return endorsed thereon and signed by the officer or person making the arrest, shall be delivered to such associate circuit judge. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3862)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3472; 1919 § 3817; 1909 § 5025
MO Rev Stat § 544.270 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 544 - Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail|Section 544.270 - Procedure before associate circuit judge.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   544.270. Procedure before associate circuit judge. — The associate circuit judge before whom any such person shall be brought shall proceed, as soon as may be, to examine the complainant and witnesses produced in support of the prosecution, on oath, in the presence of the prisoner, in regard to the offense charged, and other matters connected with such charge which such associate circuit judge may deem pertinent. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3863)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3473; 1919 § 3818; 1909 § 5026
MO Rev Stat § 544.275 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 544 - Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail|Section 544.275 - State correctional facilities may be used for certain civil or criminal proceedings not requiring a jury.

Effective - 28 Aug 1990   544.275. State correctional facilities may be used for certain civil or criminal proceedings not requiring a jury. — When a person committed to the department of corrections is a defendant in a criminal or civil proceeding other than jury trials, or a plaintiff in a civil proceeding other than a jury trial, or the movant in a postconviction proceeding, such proceeding may in the discretion of the judge be heard within a correctional facility of the department of corrections. ­­-------- (L. 1981 H.B. 223 § 1, A.L. 1988 H.B. 1340 & 1348, A.L. 1990 H.B. 974)
MO Rev Stat § 544.280 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 544 - Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail|Section 544.280 - Trial, how conducted.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   544.280. Trial, how conducted. — The order of conducting the trial or hearing, with respect to the introduction of the evidence and the examination of witnesses, shall be the same as governs in the trial of criminal cases before circuit judges, as far as practicable. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3869, A. 1949 H.B. 2141, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 544.290 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 544 - Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail|Section 544.290 - Disqualification of associate circuit judge.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   544.290. Disqualification of associate circuit judge. — An associate circuit judge shall be disqualified to conduct an examination of any person accused of felony as provided in this chapter if an affidavit is filed in his office by the accused, the prosecuting attorney, or the complainant, before the commencement of such examination, stating that the associate circuit judge is near of kin to the accused by blood or marriage; or that the offense charged is alleged to have been committed against the person or property of such associate circuit judge; or against some person near of kin to him by blood or marriage; or that the associate circuit judge is in anywise interested or prejudiced, or shall have been counsel in the matter, as the affiant verily believes. ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 842 § 3864a)
MO Rev Stat § 544.300 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 544 - Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail|Section 544.300 - Proceedings in case of disqualification.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   544.300. Proceedings in case of disqualification. — If the associate circuit judge is disqualified as provided in section 544.290, he shall certify the case for assignment to the presiding judge of the circuit and the case shall be assigned in the same manner as provided for civil cases in section 517.520. ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 842 § 3864b, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 544.310 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 544 - Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail|Section 544.310 - Associate circuit judge may call associate.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   544.310. Associate circuit judge may call associate. — It shall be lawful for any associate circuit judge to whom any complaint shall be made, or before whom any prisoner shall be brought, as herein provided, to associate with himself any other associate circuit judge of the same county, and the powers and duties herein mentioned may be executed by such two associate circuit judges so associated; and if there be a difference of opinion between the two associate circuit judges on any question, the decision of the former shall prevail. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3881)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3491; 1919 § 3836; 1909 § 5044
MO Rev Stat § 544.320 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 544 - Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail|Section 544.320 - Adjournment of hearing by associate circuit judge — release of prisoner, when, what conditions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1972   544.320. Adjournment of hearing by associate circuit judge — release of prisoner, when, what conditions. — An associate circuit judge may adjourn an examination of a prisoner pending before himself, from time to time as occasion requires, not exceeding twenty-one days at one time, and to the same or any different place in the county, as he deems necessary; and for the purpose of enabling the prisoner or prosecuting attorney to procure the attendance of witnesses, or for other good and sufficient cause shown by said prisoner or prosecuting attorney, said associate circuit judge shall allow such an adjournment on the motion of the prisoner or prosecuting attorney. In the meantime, if the party is charged with an offense not bailable he shall be committed; otherwise he may be released as provided in section 544.455 for his appearance, before such associate circuit judge or before any associate circuit judge who may be authorized to hear the matter, for such further examination, and not to depart without leave of the court, and for want of such recognizance he shall be committed; provided that the associate circuit judge shall continue the cause in excess of twenty-one days in order to comply with section 510.120. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3864, A.L. 1945 p. 842, A.L. 1971 H.B. 439, A.L. 1972 H.B. 1160)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3474; 1919 § 3819; 1909 § 5027  (1976) Held that granting a continuance in excess of ten days does not cause magistrate to lose jurisdiction. State v. Canania (A.), 537 S.W.2d 203.
MO Rev Stat § 544.330 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 544 - Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail|Section 544.330 - Failure to appear under recognizance.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   544.330. Failure to appear under recognizance. — If the person recognized does not appear before the associate circuit judge according to the condition of such recognizance, the associate circuit judge shall record the default, but such default may be set aside by the associate circuit judge on the appearance of the prisoner, and for good cause shown, at any time to which the examination may be continued by said associate circuit judge; and in case such default be not set aside, as aforesaid, the associate circuit judge shall certify the recognizance, with a record of such default, to the court having cognizance of the offense charged against the person so recognized, and the like proceedings shall be had thereon as upon breach of condition of a recognizance for appearance before said court. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3865)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3475; 1919 § 3820; 1909 § 5028  (1967) Where defendants charged with felony forfeited bond, the magistrate court had jurisdiction only to record default not to enter judgment thereon against surety. Criminal Rule 32.12 cannot enlarge the jurisdiction of the magistrate court and as the magistrate court lacked jurisdiction to enter a judgment against surety, the circuit court acquired no jurisdiction on appeal. State v. Anderson (Mo.), 413 S.W.2d 161. (1971) The state as obligee is not entitled to enforcement of a forfeiture of an appearance bond where the principal was confined by the obligee and by reason of that confinement, the surety was prevented from producing the principal in court and satisfying the condition of the bond. State v. Savage (Mo.), 461 S.W.2d 887.
MO Rev Stat § 544.340 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 544 - Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail|Section 544.340 - Commitment of party, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1972   544.340. Commitment of party, when. — When such person is not released as provided in section 544.455, he may be committed to prison by an order under the hand of the associate circuit judge, stating concisely that he is committed for further examination on a future day, to be named in the order, and on the day appointed he may be brought before the associate circuit judge, by his verbal order to the officer who made the commitment, or by his order in writing to a different person. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3866, A.L. 1972 H.B. 1160)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3476; 1919 § 3821; 1909 § 5029
MO Rev Stat § 544.350 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 544 - Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail|Section 544.350 - Complaint to be read, time given for advice.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   544.350. Complaint to be read, time given for advice. — The associate circuit judge shall strictly inform the prisoner of the charge made against him, and read to him the complaint, if requested to do so, and he shall allow the prisoner reasonable time to advise with his counsel, and, for that purpose, to send for counsel, if he require it. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3867)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3477; 1919 § 3822; 1909 § 5030
MO Rev Stat § 544.360 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 544 - Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail|Section 544.360 - Exclusion of witnesses from examination.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   544.360. Exclusion of witnesses from examination. — While any witness for or against the prisoner is under examination, the associate circuit judge may exclude from the place in which such examination is had all witnesses who have not been examined, and he may cause the witnesses to be kept separate and prevented from conversing with each other, until they shall have been examined. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3868)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3478; 1919 § 3823; 1909 § 5031
MO Rev Stat § 544.370 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 544 - Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail|Section 544.370 - Homicide, written evidence.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   544.370. Homicide, written evidence. — In all cases of homicide, but in no other, the evidence given by the several witnesses shall be reduced to writing by the associate circuit judge, or under his direction, and shall be signed by the witnesses respectively. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3870)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3480; 1919 § 3825; 1909 § 5033  (1963) Admission in evidence in murder prosecution of transcript of testimony of deceased's widow at preliminary hearing which was not signed by witness nor certified by the magistrate to the circuit court was reversible error where the testimony in connection with other state's evidence conflicted with defendant's evidence. State v. Luttrell (Mo.), 366 S.W.2d 453. (1966) As there is no constitutional requirement that there be a transcript of the testimony in a preliminary hearing, nor even a constitutional requirement that a preliminary hearing be held, defendant had no constitutional right to have a transcript of preliminary hearing. State v. Maxwell (Mo.), 400 S.W.2d 156.