Harmon v. State

Admand, Justice.

At the request of the Governor of Florida, Carl E. Sanders, Governor of Georgia, issued two warrants ordering the arrest and deliverance of the person of William L. R. Harmon to the designated agent for the State of Florida as a fugitive from justice under the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act of 1951 (Ga. L. 1951, p. 726; Code Ann. § 44-401 et seq.).

Harmon thereupon filed his petition for the writ of habeas corpus against Ralph Grimes, Sheriff of Fulton County, asserting that his custody was illegal because (a) the warrant charging him with breaking and entering and grand…