Taylor v. Johnson

How later courts describe this case

• while court views provision in Mexican Constitution requiring formal complaint in some cases as “primarily for the courts of that country to interpret,” oral statements of Mexican judge “would seem to satisfy” the requirement
• extradition order valid despite refusal to allow certain witnesses to testify
• “With [Judge Learned Hand’s] customary eloquence he stated that 'the duty of ascertaining [the] meaning [of a statute] is difficult at best, and one certain way of missing it is by reading it literally_’"
• extradition warrant was not invalid because complaint upon which it was based was made by assistant United States attorney who had no personal knowledge of facts or because it failed to specify details of crime
• "With his (Judge Learned Hand) customary eloquence he stated that 'the duty of ascertaining (the) meaning (of a statute) is difficult at best, and one certain way of missing it is by reading it literally . . . .' "