Fugitive from justice
Ballentine's Law Dictionary · James A. Ballentine · 1916
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
One who, having committed an act criminal in the state, left that state aDd is to be found in another state. See 115 N. C. 811, 44 Am. St. Rep. 501, and note, 28 L. R. A. 289, 20 S. E. 729.