Trespass to land by night

(1) A person found between the hours of eight o’clock in the evening of any day and six o’clock in the morning of the next day in or on any premises or cultivated lands, or in any interval between cultivated lands other than a path permitted to be used by the general public, or in or about the works of any sugar estate, who, on being taken before a magistrate of the judicial district in which he is so found, fails to satisfy the magistrate that he had some reasonable cause or excuse for being in the place where he was so found, shall be deemed a (2) A trespasser described in this section may be apprehended and detained by any police officer, or by the owner of the premises on or near to which the trespasser is found, or by any person whom the police officer, or the owner calls to his assistance and shall be taken without delay before a magistrate or to a police station, to be dealt with according to law.