delivered the opinion of the court.
John McNamara, the appellant, was arrested on the complaint of the/British Sеnior Vice-Consul at the Port of New York charging" him with committing the crime of burglary at New Westminster, British Columbia, in breaking into a building occupied as a garage and stealing therefrom. аn automobile and rugs. Examination was demanded, and after hearing the evidence submitted on both sides the United States Commissioner found probable cause and issued an order of commitment for extradition. Writs of habeas corpus and certiorari -were then sued out upon the ground that the accused wаs restrained of his liberty without due process of law.- The District Court dismissed the writs and this appеal is brought.
The question simply is whether there was any competent evidence befоre the Commissioner entitling him to act under the statute. The weight of the evidence was fоr his determination. The .statute provides that if on the hearing, “he deems the evidencе sufficient to sustain the charge,” he shall certify the same to the Secretary of State and issue his warrant for the commitment of the accused pending surrender acсording to the stipulations of the treaty. Rev. Stat., § 5270. Under this provision, •the rule is well established thаt if the committing magistrate has jurisdiction of the subject-matter and of the accused, аnd the offense charged is within the treaty, and'" the magistrate has before him legal evidence on which to exercise his judgment as to the sufficiency of the facts to estаblish the criminality of the accused for the purposes of extradition, his decision сannot be reviewed on
habeas corpus. In re Oteiza y Cortez,
Without setting forth in detail the facts appearing from the depositions and testimony before the Commis-sionér, it is sufficient to say that there was competent evidence that the crime of burglary as defined by the law of New York where the appellant was arrested (Treaty with Great Britain, 1842, Art. X, 8 Stat. 572, 576; Treaty of 1889, Art. I, 26 Stat. 1508, 1509; Penal Law (N. Y.), §§ 400, 404) hаd been, committed by a breaking into the building in question with intent to steal the automobile there kept. It was shown that this took place between four and six o’clock on the mоrning of September 15th, 1911. The car was taken out of the building and rolled about forty feet dоwn the street, where shortly before six o’clock on that morning, according to testimony, the appellant was seen standing in front of the car “trying to crank it;” “he was trying,” said the witnеss, “to start the machine off.” Three men, unidentified,. were with him. On an examination of the car soon after, it was found that the cover had been removed from the. spark cоil and that several of the electric wires forming part of the motive equipment had been disarranged in an effort, apparently, to operate the car dеspite the absence of a switch plug.
The District Court held that this was evidence connecting the appellant with the crime upon which, in the light •of the circumstances рroved,, the Commissioner was entitled to exercise his judgment. We agree with this view.
Wilson
v.
United States,
• It is assigned as error that the Commissioner received in evidence cеrtain depositions taken in British Columbia which were certified by the Consul-General of the United States as depositions proposed to be used upon an application for the extradition of the appellant .upon another charge. We need not consider the sufficiency of this certificate, as the writ of
habeas corpus
does not operate' as a writ of error and mere errors are not the subject of review.
Benson
v.
McMahon,
Affirmed.