MADGE MUNRO’S CASE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 349, 2 May 1935, Page 5

MADGE MUNRO’S CASE

COURT HEARS APPLICATION ON EXTRADITION

Press Association —Copyright Wellington, May 1

A further application on behalf of Madge Munro for the issue of a writ of habeas corpus was heard by the Full Court of Appeal to-day. Munro is one of the prisoners being held pending extradition to Sydney, the validity of which has been attacked.

The point at stake is whether New South Wales comes within the definition of part of His Majesty’s Dominions in the Fugitive Offenders Act, the submission being that the Act in providing for the rendition of prisoners in British possessions clearly intenced that possessions should be indivisible units, and that since the constitution of the Australian States ihto the Commonwealth New South Wales was no longer an indivisible unit but had become part of the la-ger unit, the Commonwealth.