Johnson v. State

ALMON, Judge.

Appellant was in the custody of the Sheriff of Madison County, Alabama, by virtue of an arrest under two Governor’s rendition warrants issued by the Governor of Alabama at the requests of the Governors of Georgia and South Carolina.

Appellant filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Circuit Court of Madison County and, from an adverse ruling, he brings this appeal.

The Sheriff did not make a return; however, at the hearing the State introduced in evidence, over appellant’s objections, the rendition warrants issued by the Governor of Alabama with allied documents. There…