People ex rel. Martin v. Elrod

This is an appeal from a circuit court order which dismissed, after hearing, a petition for writ of habeas corpus filed by relator, Robert B. Martin, who was arrested in Chicago in May, 1974 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on an extradition warrant issued by the Governor of California which charged him with the offense of robbery and rape in the State of California on April 2,1973. He is in the custody of the Sheriff of Cook County, Richard J. Elrod.

The thrust of relator’s petition is that he was not in California on April 2, 1973, and that he is not the Robert B. Martin named in the…