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The Problem of Fugitive Felons and Witnesses

1934; Duke University School of Law; Volume: 1; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/1189657

1945-2322

H. Spencer Toy., Edmund E. Shepherd,

Legal Systems and Judicial Processes

Senator from the State of New York, as chairman of the subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, popularly known as the "Committee on 'Racketeering,"' and subsequently designated the "Committee on Crime and Criminal Practices," of which Senators Vandenberg of Michigan and Murphy of Iowa are also active members, introduced for the committee some thirteen bills, all of which were designed to close gaps in existing federal laws, and to render more difficult the activities of predatory criminal gangs of the Kelly and Dillinger types.Of these bills, eleven have become law, and some 30 others, of like origin and purpose, remain to be considered by the Congress at its coming session.-Among the bills adopted by the 7 3 rd Congress, with which this article will deal, is Public Act No. 233, approved by the President May 18, 1934, entitled, "An Act making it unlawful for any person to flee from one state to another for the purpose of avoiding prosecution or the giving of testimony in certain cases."This legislative measure, containing one section, provides: