State Ex Rel. Jos. Peck v. Chase

— The relator was apprehended in Dade County, Florida, by the sheriff, and filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The sheriff’s return to the writ dis closed that the relator was held by virtue of an executive warrant of extradition issued by the Governor of this State. The relator contested the legal sufficiency of the executive warrant inter alia upon the ground that the same did not show that the copy of affidavit therein referred to, charging the relator with having committed a crime against the laws of the State of Missouri, was “made before a magistrate” of the demanding state.…