Koch v. O'BRIEN

The usual grounds for challenging interstate rendition are not involved in this habeas corpus proceeding. The plaintiff admits that he escaped from the South Carolina State Penitentiary, is a fugitive, and that the interstate rendition papers from South Carolina are correct and substantially charge a crime for which his return to that state is sought. Hinz v. Perkins, 97 N. H. 114; Bracco v. Wooster, 91 N. H. 413; Thomas v. O’Brien, 98 N. H. 111.

The plaintiff’s main contention is that his rendition to South Carolina would be a violation of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to…