Drinkall v. Spiegel
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Application for a writ of habeas corpus, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the court, Hotchkiss, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Application for a writ of habeas corpus, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the court, Hotchkiss, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. In obedience to the command of the writ the defendant produced the plaintiff in said court, and made return that he held the plaintiff by virtue of a warrant of extradition issued by the Governor of this State, in compliance with the requisition made upon him by the Governor of the State of New York in which requisition and the…
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, C. J.
There are various assignments of error, but only two questions are presented. Is the appellant a fugitive from justice, and is he “ charged with a crime ” in the State of New York, within the meaning of that expression as used in the Constitution of the United States?
The papers attached to the requisition from the executive of New York show that the plaintiff had been indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced in that State for the crime of burglary in the third degree, and that the term of the sentence has not yet expired. The plaintiff insisted and asked the court to decide that having been…
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