§ 22-180. Magistrate absent - Taking defendant before another.

When, by the preceding sections of this chapter, the defendant is required to be taken before the magistrate who issued the warrant, he may, if the magistrate be absent or unable to act, be taken before the nearest or most accessible magistrate in the same county.  The officer must, at the same time, deliver to the magistrate the warrant, with the return endorsed and subscribed by him.

R.L.1910, § 5638.