Treadaway v. Baker

Hill, Justice.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding instituted pursuant to Code Ann. § 44-411 to test the legality of petitioner’s arrest upon the Governor’s warrant and his extradition to Tennessee.

At the habeas hearing petitioner testified that although he had been arrested in Georgia on a fugitive warrant from Bradley County, Tennessee, he was not the person named in that warrant.

The respondent sheriff urges on appeal that the Governor’s requisition warrant and accompanying extradition papers and the fugitive warrant with Tennessee capias made a prima facie case of identification of the…