Hyatt v. People Ex Rel. Corkran
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. This proceeding by habeas corpus was commenced by the relator, defendant in error, to obtain his discharge from imprisonment by the plaintiff in error, the chief of police in the city of Albany, State of New York, who held the relator by means of a warrant issued in extradition proceedings by the governor of New York.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. This proceeding by habeas corpus was commenced by the relator, defendant in error, to obtain his discharge from imprisonment by the plaintiff in error, the chief of police in the city of Albany, State of New York, who held the relator by means of a warrant issued in extradition proceedings by the governor of New York. The justice of the Supreme Court of New York, to whom the petition for the writ was addressed, and also upon appeal, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, refused to grant j£e relator’s discharge, but the…
1Opinion of the Court
MR. Justxoe PecKham,
after making the foregoing statement of facts, delivered the opinion of the court.
By clause 2 of section 2 of Article IV of the Constitution of the United States it is provided:
“ 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.”
It was held in Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Dennison, Governor, 24 How. 66, 104, that this provision of the Constitution…
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