Ross v. Crofutt
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Petition for a writ of habeas corpus to determine the legality of the petitioner’s detention pending his delivery to an agent of the State of New York in compliance with a requisition from the Governor of that State, brought to and heard by the Hon. Howard B. Scott, judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Fairfield County, upon a demurrer to the return of the respondent; said judge overruled the demurrer, dismissed the petition and remanded the petitioner to the custody of the…
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Petition for a writ of habeas corpus to determine the legality of the petitioner’s detention pending his delivery to an agent of the State of New York in compliance with a requisition from the Governor of that State, brought to and heard by the Hon. Howard B. Scott, judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Fairfield County, upon a demurrer to the return of the respondent; said judge overruled the demurrer, dismissed the petition and remanded the petitioner to the custody of the respondent, from which the petitioner appealed. The return of the respondent showed that the petitioner was held under…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The purpose of Article Fourth, § 2, of the Constitution of the United States, which requires that “a person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State shall on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime,” is to make it the imperative duty of the chief executive of a State to deliver up criminals fleeing from justice for removal to the State from which they flee, and it effectuates its purpose by defining the class of…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Roberts v. ReillySupreme Court of the United States · 1885
- Munsey v. CloughSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
- Hyatt v. People Ex Rel. CorkranSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Ex Parte ReggelSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
- Whitten v. TomlinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
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- Winnick v. ReillySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1924
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- McCarthy v. ClancySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1930
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