Volume 75
Public Law 87–368
To amend section 1073 of title 18, United States Code, the Fugitive Felon Act.
Approved October 4, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 1073 of title 18, United States Code, the Fugitive Felon Act.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 1073 of
Crimes Fugitives from justice.
title 18 of the United States Code is amended to read as follows:
“Whoever moves or travels in interstate or foreign commerce with
intent either (1) to avoid prosecution, or custody or confinement after conviction, under the laws of the place from which he flees, for a crime, or an attempt to commit a crime, punishable by death or which is a felony under the laws of the place from which the fugitive flees, or which, in the case of New Jersey, is a high misdemeanor under the laws of said State, or (2) to avoid giving testimony in any criminal proceedings in such place in which the commission of an offense punishable by death or which is a felony under the laws of such place, or which in the case of New Jersey, is a high misdemeanor under the laws of said State, is charged, shall be fined not more than $.5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
“Violations of this section may be prosecuted only in the Federal judicial district in which the original crime was alleged to have been committed, or in which the person was held in custody or confinement and only upon formal approval in writing by the Attorney General or an Assistant Attorney General of the United States, which function of approving prosecutions may not be delegated.”
Approved October 4, 1961.