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The 'Hot Trail' Into Mexico And Extradition Analogies, Edwin D. Dickinson
The 'Hot Trail' Into Mexico And Extradition Analogies, Edwin D. Dickinson
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The recent decision of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Dominguez v. State, 234 S. W. 79, has given us an important precedent and also a valuable example of the solution of novel problems by means of analogies. A detachment of the military forces of the United States had been authorized by the War Department to enter Mexico on the "hot trail" in pursuit of bandits. While following a "hot trail" this detachment arrested Dominguez, a native citizen and resident of Mexico, and returned with him to the United States. It developed later that he was not one of …