Commonwealth of Ky. v. DENNISON, GOVERNOR, &C.
Supreme Court of the United States
A motion was made in. behalf of the State of Kentucky, by the direction and in the name of thi Governor of the State, for a rule on the Governor of Ohio to show cause why a mandamus should’ not be issued by this court, commanding him to cause Willis Lago, a fugitive from justice, to be delivered up, to be removed to the State of Kentucky, having jurisdie tion of the crime with which he is charged.
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A motion was made in. behalf of the State of Kentucky, by the direction and in the name of thi Governor of the State, for a rule on the Governor of Ohio to show cause why a mandamus should’ not be issued by this court, commanding him to cause Willis Lago, a fugitive from justice, to be delivered up, to be removed to the State of Kentucky, having jurisdie tion of the crime with which he is charged. The facts on which this motion was made are as follows: The grand jury of Woodford Circuit Court, in the State of Kentucky, at October term, 1859, .returned to the court the following indictment…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney
The court is sensible of the importance of this case, and of the great interest and gravity of the questions involved in it, and which have Been raised and fully argued at the bar.
Some of them, however, are not now for the first time brought to the attention of this court; and. the objections made to the jurisdiction, and the form and nature of the process to be issued, and upon whom it is to be served, have all been heretofore considered and decided, and cannot now he regarded as open to further dispute.
As early as 1792, in the case of Georgia v. Brailsford, the court exercised the original…
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