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3324. FUGITIVES, Punishment of.—
All
excess of punishment is a crime. To remit
a fugitive to excessive punishment, is to be
accessory to the crime. Ought we to wish for
the obligation, or the right to do it? Better
on the whole, to consider these crimes as
sufficiently punished by the exile.—
Report on Spanish Convention. Washington ed. iii, 354.
Ford ed., v, 484.
(1792)
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