The deputy sheriffs may for any suspected freshly committed crime, whether upon view or upon prompt information or complaint, arrest without warrant and, in pursuit of the criminal or suspected criminal, enter houses or break and enter them, whether in their own county or in an adjoining county.
S.C. Code Ann. § 23-13-60
Power of arrest
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 401 Pa. Super. 490 - Commonwealth v. Leet (1991)
Most recently applied in State v. Ramsey (July 2014)
1962 Code SECTION 53-85; 1952 Code SECTION 53-85; 1942 Code SECTION 3493; 1932 Code SECTION 3493; Civ
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