Colorado Code § 16-20-103

Persons subject to extradition
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(1) A person alleged to be of unsound mind
found in this state who has fled from another state shall be extradited from this state on demand
of the executive authority of the state from which he fled if, at the time of his flight:
(a) He was under detention by law in a hospital, asylum, or other institution for the
insane as a person of unsound mind;
(b) He had been determined by a legal proceeding to be of unsound mind prior to his
flight, the finding being unreversed and in full force and effect and the control of his person
having been acquired by a court of competent jurisdiction of the state from which he fled; or
(c) He was subject to detention in such state, being then his legal domicile (personal
process having been made), based on legal proceedings to have him declared of unsound mind.

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