University of Virginia Library

Search this document 

3320. FUGITIVES, Murderers.—

Any
person having committed murder of malice
prepense,
not of the nature of treason, within
the United States or the Spanish provinces
adjoining thereto, and fleeing from the justice
of the country, shall be delivered up by
the government where he shall be found, to
that from which he fled, whenever demanded
by the same.—
Project of a Spanish Convention. Washington ed. iii, 350. Ford ed., v, 485.
(1792)