Nichols v. Cornelius

Pamelia Cornelius presented a petition to the judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Decatur county, stating that she was illegally imprisoned by James T. Nichols, under pretence of a warrant from the governor *612of this state, and praying for a writ of habeas corpus, which was granted. Nichols returned to the writ that he held the petitioner in custody by virtue of a writ issued by the governor of this state, upon a requisition of the governor of the state of Kentucky, for the petitioner, as a fugitive from justice, and of an appointment of himself as an agent of the state of Kentucky, to demand…