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A person in the act of committing any offence may be apprehended without a warrant.
A justice, upon good grounds of suspicion proved on oath, may grant a search warrant.
Any person to whom stolen property is offered may seize the party offering it.
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103. Any person found committing any offence punishable, either upon indictment or upon summary conviction, by virtue of this Act, except only the offence of angling in the daytime, may be immediately apprehended without a warrant by any person, and forthwith taken, together with such property, if any, before some neighbouring justice of the peace, to be dealt with according to law; and if any credible witness shall prove upon oath before a justice of the peace a reasonable cause to suspect that any person has in his possession or on his premises any property whatsoever on or with respect to which any offence, punishable either upon indictment or upon summary conviction by virtue of this Act, shall have been committed, the justice may grant a warrant to search for such property as in the case of stolen goods; and any person to whom any property shall be offered to be sold, pawned, or delivered, if he shall have reasonable cause to suspect that any such offence has been committed on or with respect to such property, is hereby authorized, and, if in his power, is required, to apprehend and forthwith to take before a justice of the peace the party offering the same, together with such property, to be dealt with according to law.
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