Subject to this article, the Constitution of the United States, and any and all acts of Congress enacted in pursuance thereof, it is the duty of the Governor of this state to have arrested and delivered up to the executive authority of any other state any person charged in that state with treason, felony, or other crime, who has fled from justice and is found in this state.
(Ga. L. 1951, p. 726, § 2.)
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
General Assembly intended that misdemeanors be covered.
- This section, by the use of the words "other crime," clearly expresses the intention of the General Assembly that the Governor shall extradite persons charged with a misdemeanor in other states. 1958-59 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 251.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 31A Am. Jur. 2d, Extradition, § 90 et seq.
C.J.S.- 35 C.J.S. (Rev), Extradition and Detainers, § 3 et seq.
U.L.A.- Uniform Criminal Extradition Act (U.L.A.) § 2.
ALR.
- Sanity or insanity or pendency of lunacy proceedings as matters for consideration in extradition proceedings, 114 A.L.R. 693.
Necessity that demanding state show probable cause to arrest fugitive in extradition proceedings, 90 A.L.R.3d 1085.