§ 205 Private person making arrest must take defendant to magistrate or officer.

If you're an ordinary citizen and you arrest someone for committing a crime, you can't just hold that person yourself or decide what happens to them next. The law requires you to act quickly and either bring the person before a judge or hand them over to a police officer.

The key point here is speed. You can't sit on the situation or delay turning the person over. As soon as you reasonably can, you need to get that person to a magistrate or a peace officer so the case can move through the proper legal process.

This rule exists to protect everyone involved. It stops private citizens from acting like their own police force and holding people indefinitely. It also makes sure the person who was arrested gets fair treatment under the law, with a judge or officer taking over the situation instead of being left in the hands of a private citizen.