State Ex Rel. Zahnd v. Head

Robert Zahnd has appealed from the order of the lower Court dismissing his petition for writ of habeas corpus. His complaint in that petition filed on September 28,1946 is that he had been held since September 25, 1946 in jail on a warrant which charged him with being a fugitive from justice from the State of Georgia, but that the warrant did not charge the crime he is alleged to have committed in Georgia as required by code section 11927, and that he had not been taken before a committing magistrate or allowed bail as provided by code section 11928. The return of the sheriff was that since…