2010 Arkansas Code
Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts
Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally
Chapter 94 - Extradition
Subchapter 2 - Uniform Criminal Extradition Act
§ 16-94-205 - Warrant generally.

16-94-205. Warrant generally.

A warrant of extradition must not be issued unless documents presented by the executive authority making the demand show that:

I. Except in cases arising under 16-94-206, the accused was present in the demanding state at the time of the commission of the alleged crime, and thereafter fled from the state;

II. The accused is now in this state; and

III. He or she is lawfully charged by indictment found or by information filed by a prosecuting officer and supported by affidavit to the facts, or by affidavit made before a magistrate in that state, with having committed a crime under the laws of that state, or that he or she has been convicted of a crime in that state and has escaped from confinement or broken his or her parole.

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