Russell v. State

BROWN, Justice.

The appellant Russell, then in the custody ■of the Sheriff of Covington County, sued out a writ of habeas corpus before the judge ■of probate of said county seeking his dis■charge from custody on stated grounds, among others, that the governor’s warrant under which he was being held for extradition to the State of Georgia, is void and that said extradition proceedings were being used as a cover for the collection of a •debt demanded or claimed, alleged to be due the prosecutrix, his divorced wife, now Mrs. Ward, arising out of an agreement entered into during the year 1934.

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