Trial Report, 5–19 January 1843, as Published in Reports [Extradition of JS for Accessory to Assault]
Source Note
Trial Report, [, Sangamon Co., IL], 5–19 Jan. 1843, Extradition of JS for Accessory to Assault (United States Circuit Court for the District of IL 1843). Published in John McLean, Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Circuit Court of the United States, for the Seventh Circuit, vol. 3, Cincinnati: Derby, Bradley and Co., 1847, pp. 121–139. Includes typeset signature marks.
him to a foreign state for trial. For these reasons, Smith must be discharged.
At the request of , counsel for Smith, it is proper to state, in justice to the present executive of the state of , , that it was admitted on the argument, that the warrant which originally issued upon the said requisition, was issued by his ; that when Smith came to to surrender himself up upon that warrant, it was in the hands of the person to whom it had been issued at in this ; and that the present warrant, which is a copy of the former one, was issued at the request of Smith, to enable him to test its legality by writ of .
Let an order be entered that Smith be discharged from his arrest. [p. 139]