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- Title: Bryant v. United States.
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 10, 1897
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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The question before the commissioner in this case was whether, in the language of the treaty of 1842, article X, 8 Stat. 572, 576, there was "such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial if the crime or offence had been there committed." In other words, whether, according to our laws, there was probable cause to believe him guilty of the crimes charged. Rev. Stat. ? 5270; Benson v. McMahon, 127 U.S. 457, 462. The question before us is even narrower than that, viz.: Whether there was any legal evidence at all upon which the commissioner could decide that there was evidence sufficient to justify his commitment for extradition; or, as stated in Ornelas v. Ruiz, 161 U.S. 502, 508, "if the committing magistrate has jurisdiction of the subject-matter and of the accused, and the offence charged is within the terms of the treaty of extradition, and the magistrate in arriving at a decision to hold the accused has before him competent legal evidence on which to exercise his judgment as to whether the facts are sufficient to establish the criminality of the accused for the purposes of extradition, such decision cannot be reviewed on habeas corpus." See also In re Oteiza, 136 U.S. 330.