State ex rel. Johnson v. Mainard

' This appeal is from the judgment of the circuit judge of Madison County, dismissing the petition for habeas corpus filed by relator Johnson against respondent, Robert Mainard, Chief of Police of the City of Jackson, to test the validity of a warrant for his extradition to Cook County, Illinois, on a criminal charge generally known as a confidence game, committed on September 17, 1947. The petition seeks to avoid extradition on the ground that relator was not in Illinois on or about that date.

In support of his contention, relator undertook to prove that he was not in Illinois on said date.…