28 App. D.C. 324 | D.C. | 1906
delivered the opinion of the Court:
The appellant insists that the court below erred in making the final order appealed from, and in refusing the evidence proffered to show the motive of the appellant in leaving the State of New York, and to prove that he was not a fugitive from its justice.
The learned court below committed no error. The question raised has been determined by this court, and has been finally settled by the Supreme Court. It is clear that the proceedings under the requisition were in accordance with the U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5218 (U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 3591), and of the District Code, sec. 930 [31 Stat. at L. 1340, chap. 854] The legal sufficiency of the indictment is only to be determined by the court in which it was found. Benson v. Henkel, 198 U. S. 10, 49 L. ed. 922, 25 Sup. Ct. Rep. 569, and cases there cited. Were it not so, the indictment could not be attacked collaterally as proposed, and by a series of proffered proofs which would not be admissible evidence upon any ground. In habeas corpus proceedings for the discharge of Depoilly, held under this requisition, the court below could not consider matters of defense to this indictment, nor inquire into the charge that the requisition proceedings were instigated by malice. The court could not inquire into the motive and purpose of this extradition proceeding. Re Sultan, 115 N. C. 62, 28 L.R.A. 294, 44 Am. St. Rep. 433, 20 S. E. 375; Re Bloch, 87 Fed. 984.
The main proposition relied upon by appellant’s counsel is that it was not made to appear that Depoilly was a fugitive from justice: In this case, before the chief justice of the court below passed the final order here appealed from, it must have appeared to him, first, that Depoilly was substantially charged with a crime against the laws of the State of New York, from whose
The precise question was settled by this court and exhaustively discussed in Hayes v. Palmer, 21 App. D. C. 458. See also Hyatt v. New York, 188 U. S. 691, 718, 47 L. ed. 657, 664, 23 Sup. Ct. Rep. 456.
The appellant’s counsel emphasizes the alleged fact that Depoilly, for more than three years after the alleged date of the crime with which he is charged, resided in New York.
The statute of limitations as a defense, under TJ. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 1044 (U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 725), and under U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 1045 (U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 726), and the