Conn. Gen. Stat. § 54-158

Current with legislation from the 2024 Regular and Special Sessions.
Section 54-158 - Governor's duty to arrest and deliver up fugitive

Subject to the provisions of this chapter, the provisions of the Constitution of the United States controlling, 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 of the United States any person charged in that state with treason, felony or other crime, who has fled from justice and is found in this state.

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 54-158

(1957, P.A. 362, S. 2.)

Cited. 163 C. 394; 186 Conn. 404; 190 Conn. 631; 193 C. 116. Cited. 3 CA 512. Words "or other crime" necessarily include misdemeanors. 25 CS 179.