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FLEE FROM JUSTICE

To leave one’s home, residence, or known place of abode, or to conceal one’s self therein, with intent, in either case, to avoid detection or punishment for some public offense. Streep v. U. S., 160 U. S. 128, 16 Sup. Ct 244, 40 L. Ed. 365; Lay v. State, 42 Ark. 110; U. S. v. O’Brian, 8 Dill. 881, Fed. Cas. No. 15,008; United States v. Smith, 4 Day (Conn.) 125, Fed. Cas. No. 16,332; State v. Washburn, 48 Mo. 241.

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