Commonwealth v. Cooke

Citations

• 55 Pa. Super. 435
• 1913 Pa. Super. LEXIS 390

Syllabus

<p>Extradition — Fugitive from justice — Requisition—Information—Act of May 24, 1878, P. L. 187 — Act of congress, U. S. Revised Statutes, sec. 5278.</p> <p>The word “information” in the proviso of the first section of the Act of May 24, 1878, P. L. 137, which states that a “requisition must be accompanied with a certified copy of the indictment or information,” is to be given its ordinary meaning of a written accusation sworn to before a magistrate upon which an indictment is afterwards founded, and not the mere technical meaning of a prosecution begun by the public prosecuting officer on his own initiative without any previous accusation, hearing or binding over.</p>