In re Complaint in Habeas Corpus of Rowe

We need not pause in this appeal for a threshold inquiry as to whether federal or state law is controlling with respect to the matter before us. It is definitively and conclusively settled that when interstate extradition is sought upon the basis that one has committed an offense in the demanding state and fled therefrom to an asylum state, federal law, both constitutional and statutory, insofar as it is applicable, is controlling. South Carolina v. Bailey (1933), 289 U. S. 412; Innes v. Tobin (1916), 240 U. S. 127; Kentucky v. Dennison (1860), 65 U. S. 66; Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842), 41 U.…