Davis's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Habeas corpus of a person held by a deputy of the sheriff of Suffolk, under a warrant issued by the Governor of this Commonwealth, upon a requisition of the Governor of the State of Vermont, for his arrest and delivery as a fugitive from the justice of the State of Vermont.
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Habeas corpus of a person held by a deputy of the sheriff of Suffolk, under a warrant issued by the Governor of this Commonwealth, upon a requisition of the Governor of the State of Vermont, for his arrest and delivery as a fugitive from the justice of the State of Vermont. The warrant of the Governor of this Commonwealth contained the following recital: “ Whereas application has been made to me by the supreme executive authority of the State of Vermont for the delivery of Joseph C. Davis, of Boston, charged with the crime of obtaining money by false representations, and represented to be a…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
By the Constitution of the United States, “ 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 juris-diction of the crime.” Const. U. S. art. 4, § 2. Congress has enacted that when the executive authority of any state shall demand any person, as a fugitive from justice, of the executive authority of the state to which he has fled, and shall produce the copy of an indictment found, or an…
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