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impracticable or unduly expensive in time or money to 
reach a commissioner, warrants in Federal cases may be 
obtained from a justice of the peace or other officer men¬ 
tioned in section 1014, United States Revised Statutes, 
which is as follows: 
For any crime or offense against the United States, the 
offender may, by any justice or judge of the United States, 
or by any commissioner of a circuit court to take bail, or 
by any chancellor, judge of a supreme court or superior 
court, chief or first judge of common pleas, mayor of a city, 
justice of the peace or other magistrate of any State where 
he may be found, and agreeably to the usual mode of 
process against offenders in such State, and at the expense 
of the United States, be arrested and imprisoned, or 
bailed, as the case may be, for trial before such court of the 
United States as by law has cognizance of the offense. 
Copies of the process shall be returned as speedily as may 
be into the clerk’s office of such court, together with the 
recognizances of the witnesses for their appearance to 
testify in the case. And where any offender or witness is 
committed in any district other than that where the 
offense is to be tried, it shall be the duty of the judge of 
the district where such offender or witness is imprisoned 
seasonably to issue, and of the marshal to execute, a 
warrant for his removal to the district where the trial is 
to be had. 
Complaints and information .—Warrants for arrest from 
a justice of the peace are issued on complaint sworn to 
by a responsible person, upon a showing of probable 
cause sufficient to satisfy the issuing magistrate. The 
officer seeking the warrant should be able to show facts 
ancl evidence if necessary, and not merely information 
and belief. However, it is well not to divulge too much 
so as to expose one’s hand in the prosecution of the case. 
The complaint must designate the specific offense com¬ 
mitted and specify the statute and section violated, with 
such particulars of time, place, person, and property as 
to enable the defendant to understand clearly the char¬ 
acter of the offense charged. Extreme care should be 
used in drawing the complaint, since not only the arrest 
but the case in court will be based upon it. In the 
wording of the complaint the language of the law invoked 
should be closely followed. Include onlv what you are 
