Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Morgan
District Court, S.D. California
Decided July 6, 1948No. 8350PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
YANKWICH, District Judge.
I
Interstate Extradition.
The Constitution of the United States provides that a person charged in any State with treason, felony or other crime, who flees from justice, and is found in another State, shall be delivered to the State having jurisdiction of the crime on demand of the Executive authority of such State.
The object of this provision, which in the identical language appeared first in the Articles of Confederation of 1781, has been stated by the Supreme Court in this manner:
“The language was not used to express the law of extradition as usually prevailing among…
2Cases cited40 opinions
- Hines v. DavidowitzSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Hyde v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
- Ex Parte HawkSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Roberts v. ReillySupreme Court of the United States · 1885
- White v. RagenSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
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3Cited by17 opinions
- In Re CooperCalifornia Supreme Court · 1960
- The PEOPLE EX REL. BRENNER v. SainIllinois Supreme Court · 1963
- In Re MartzIdaho Supreme Court · 1960
- Ex Parte BledsoeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1951
- McCullough v. DarrSupreme Court of Kansas · 1976
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