In Re Riggins

This is an appeal in the nature of certiorari, upon leave granted, from an order of the circuit court for Wayne county dismissing appellant’s petition for the writ of habeas corpus.

Appellant was taken into custody by the sheriff of Wayne county on a fugitive warrant upon requisition by the governor of Georgia, charged with being a fugitive from justice from that State. The executive authority of the State of Georgia presented to the governor of this State a demand for extradition of appellant, showing that an indictment had been returned by a grand jury in Crisp county, Georgia, charging…