Missouri Revised Statutes Title XXXVII. Criminal Procedure § 544.110. Escape to another county when guilty of felony

When any person who shall have committed a felony in one county shall escape into another, any associate circuit judge within the county in which such offender may be found may, upon complaint in writing and upon oath being made before him charging such person with such offense, issue his warrant for the apprehension of such offender, and the officer making the arrest shall convey the prisoner to the county in which the offense is charged to have been committed, as prescribed in section 544.260.