Statutes relating to making arrests in criminal causes without first procuring a warrant, generally confirm the common law; for instance, the criminal code of Illinois contains the following provisions: when the fact that a felony has been committed comes to the knowledge of any sheriff, coroner or constable, fresh pursuit shall be forthwith made after every person guilty thereof, by such sheriff, coroner or console, and all other persons who shall be by any of them commanded or summoned for that purpose.

4 Cahill vs. People, 106 Ill., 621;

Shanley vs. Wells, 71 Ill., 82; Simmerman vs. State, 16 Neb., 615.

5 North vs. People, 139 Ill., 106.

6 Main vs. McCarty, 15 Ill., 441;

State vs. Lewis, 50 Ohio St., 179; Hughes' Cr. Law, Sec. 2641.

7 Hughes'Cr. Law, Sec. 2643; People vs. Bartz, 53 Mich., 493; State vs. McAfee, 107 N. C, 812

8 North vs. People, 139 Ill., 105. 9 Muscoe vs. Com., 86 Va., 443.

It shall be the duty of every sheriff, coroner, constable, and every marshal, policeman, or other officer of any incorporated city, town or village, having the power of a sheriff or constable, when any criminal offense or breach of the peace is committed in his presence, forthwith to apprehend the offender, and bring him before some justice of the peace to be dealt with according to law.10