Ex Parte Hansen v. Edwards

The petitioner is held by respondents under a warrant issued by the governor o.f Missouri upon a requisition from the governor of Kansas and seeks to gain his liberty by this proceeding in habeas corpus. The petition for the writ alleges that petitioner is being unlawfully held on account of the fact that said warrant, a copy of which is attached to the petition, was unlawfully issued and void for three reasons: .First, the requisition was not sufficient because the county attorney of Wyandotte county, Kansas, who applied to the governor of Kansas for the requisition, did not state in his…