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CRIMINAL CODE.

fear an injury or breach of the peace, be required to find sureties for keeping the peace, for a term not exceeding six months, with the right of appealing as before provided.

Sec. 19. Whenever upon a suit brought on any such recognizances, the penalty thereof shall be adjudged forfeited, the court may remit such portion of the penalty, on the petition of any defendant, as the circumstances of the case shall render just and reasonable.

Sec. 20. Any surety in a recognizance to keep the peace, or for good behavior, or both, shall have the same authority and right to take and surrender his principal, as if he had been bail for him in a civil case, and upon such surrender, shall be discharged and exempt from all liability for any act of the principal, subsequent to such surrender, which would be a breach of the condition of the recognizance: and the person so surrendered may recognize anew, with sufficient sureties, before any justice of the peace for the residue of the term, and thereupon shall be discharged.




CHAPTER 16.

ARRESTS.

Section 1. Arrest is the taking of a person into custody, that he may be held to answer for public offense.

Sec. 2. An arrest may be either:

1. By a peace officer under a warrant;

2. By a peace officer without a warrant;

3. By a private person.

Sec. 3. Every person must aid an officer in the execution of a warrant, if the officer require his aid, and be present and acting in its execution.

Sec. 4. If the offense charged be a fedony, the arrest may be made on any day and at any time of the day or night; if it be a misdemeanor, the arrest cannot be made on Sunday, or at