English v. Matowitz

The petitioner claims that since the Pennsylvania indictments charge him with having committed the offenses in Pennsylvania while he was in the city of Cleveland, he is not a fugitive from justice of the state of Pennsylvania and, therefore, is not subject to extradition to that state. In this claim the petitioner relies on the provisions of Section 2, Article IV of the Constitution of the United States, which reads in part as follows:

“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 execu…