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Página 5 - In all cases in which, under the laws of the United States, oaths or acknowledgments may now be taken or made before any justice of the peace of any State or Territory...
Página 11 - City to many persons there, that the agent of Virginia was on his way to this place with such requisition before he reached here. The insinuation that I had anything to do, directly or indirectly, with sending information to Coppoc that a requisition had been made for him, is simply and unqualifiedly untrue; nor have I any means of knowing whether such information was sent by others, or, if so, by whom sent, other than that common to all persons then at the Capital — common rnmor.
Página 6 - Columbia, they may hereafter be also taken or made by or before any notary public duly appointed in any State, District, or Territory, or any of the commissioners of the circuit courts, and, when certified under the hand and official seal of such notary or commissioner, shall have the same force and effect as if taken or made by or before such Justice of the peace.
Página 11 - I had communicated to him my determination not to grant the warrant demandée!, he sat in my office conversing freely with me on the subject. During our conversation, other persons came in on business with me, and to my surprise he continued the conversation in their presence. I said to him, that I...
Página 11 - State, unless he knew the charges to be sustained by the facts, and might construe my silence into an admission of their truth. The fact that an agent of Virginia was here, with a requisition for Coppoc, became publicly known in this place, solely through the acts of that agent himself. I denied myself what I greatly desired, the privilege of consultation with gentlemen in whose opinions I had confidence, touching the legality of the papers submitted to me, lest the matter might thereby, through...
Página 8 - The affidavit, when that form of evidence is adopted, must be at least so explicit and certain that if it were laid before a magistrate it would justify him in committing the accused to answer the charge: 6 Perm, Law Jour.
Página 13 - State, shall transmit to me papers, properly executed and containing proper proof, demanding the surrender of any one of our people, I shall promptly issue a warrant for his rendition— and not till then. SAMUEL J. KIRKWOOD. THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, TO THE EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: Whereas it appears by the annexed document, which is hereby certified as authentic, that Barclay Coppoc is a fugitive from justice from this State, charged with the crime of treason, conspiring with...
Página 14 - States exercises extraterritorial jurisdiction, and produces a copy of an indictment found or an affidavit made before a magistrate...
Página 4 - ... such a basis. It is a high prerogative of official power in any case, to seize a citizen of the State and send him upon an exparte statement, and without any preliminary examination, and without confronting him with a single witness, to a distant State for trial. It is a prerogative so high that the law tolerates its exercise only on certain fixed conditions, and I certainly shall not exercise that power to the peril of any citizen of Iowa, upon the demand of the State of Virginia, or of any...
Página 8 - Boggs' opinion then is not authority. He should have given the facts. He should have shown that they were committed in Missouri, to enable the Court to test them by the laws of Missouri, to see if they amounted to a crime. Again, the affidavit is fatally defective in this, that Boggs swears to his belief.

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