Bruce v. Rayner
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maryland. This case comes up on appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maryland. Thomas Bruce, the appellant, being in custody of an agent of the state of New Jersey under the warrant of the Governor of Maryland, applied on the 2d January, 1903, to the Circuit Court of the United States for a writ of habeas corpus.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maryland. This case comes up on appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maryland. Thomas Bruce, the appellant, being in custody of an agent of the state of New Jersey under the warrant of the Governor of Maryland, applied on the 2d January, 1903, to the Circuit Court of the United States for a writ of habeas corpus. His petition sets forth his arrest and alleged unlawful detention under a warrant issued by the Governor of Maryland in response to a requisition of the Governor of New Jersey,…
1Opinion of the CourtSimonton, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). Was this error on the part of the court? .Section 2, cl. 2, art. 4, of the Constitution of the United States, declares:
“That a person charged in any state with treason, felony or any other crime who shall flee from justice and be found in another state, shall on the demand of the executive of the state from which he fled be delivered up to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.”
Provision for executing this mandate of the Constitution is made in sections 5278-5279, Rev. St. U. S. [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3597]. Whenever, however, a person…
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