Every person making an arrest shall take the offender before the proper officer without unnecessary delay for examination of his case, except as otherwise provided in Section 99-3-18.
Miss. Code Ann. § 99-3-17
Offender must be taken before proper officer without delay
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case 606 So. 2d 1015 - Abram v. State (1992)
Most recently applied in 163 So. 3d 240 - Marlon Latodd Howell v. State of Mississippi (October 2014)
Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 279; 1871, § 2779; 1880, § 3029; 1892, § 1378; 1906, § 1450; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1207; 1930, § 1230; 1942, § 2473; Laws, 1980, ch. 446, § 2, eff from a…
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