The deputy sheriffs may for any suspected freshly committed crime, whether upon view or upon prompt information or complaint, arrest without warrant and, in pursuit of the criminal or suspected criminal, enter houses or break and enter them, whether in their own county or in an adjoining county.

SECTION 23-13-60, and therefore SECTION 23-5-40, grants to highway patrolman authority to arrest defendant where patrolman arriving at scene of accident finds two cars, each damaged by other, and defendant, admitted driver of one vehicle, is highly intoxicated. State v. Martin (S.C. 1980) 275 S.C. 141, 268 S.E.2d 105.