Godwin v. State
Godwin v. State
Opinion of the Court
“It was competent for him to hear oral evidence in order to establish the fact that, the petitioner was not a fugitive from justice.” “It is just as material to show that the prisoner does not come within the law, on the ground that he has never fled from the demanding state, as on the ground that he is not the identical person * * * indicted.” “It may be considered clear, therefore, without any conflict of authority, that the Constitution and laws of Congress do not provide for the extradition of any person except those who mav have fled from or left the demanding state as fugitives' from the justice of that state.”
The court refused to allow the defendant to show that he is not a fugitive from justice from the state of Georgia, and declined to consider any evidence offered in this connection by the defendant. The evidence offered by the prisoner, which the court excluded and declined to consider, tended to show that petitioner is not a fugitive from justice from the state of Georgia, and therefore the court erred in declining to consider this evidence, for which error the judgment remanding the prisoner to the custody of the sheriff must be reversed and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.
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