Legal Opinion
Taylor v. Foster
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided February 15, 1949No. 16485PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Wyatt, Justice.
The exception is to a judgment refusing to discharge the applicant, Arthur R. Taylor, on his petition for the writ of habeas corpus. At the time of his application he was duly held in custody, as a fugitive from justice, by A. B. Foster, Sheriff of Fulton County, under an executive warrant of the Governor of Georgia, based on an extradition proceeding by the Governor of California. No attack is made on the extradition proceeding. It appeared that on October 24, 1941, Taylor was sentenced to serve a term of five years after pleading guilty to a felony charge in California. On…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Broyles v. MountSupreme Court of Georgia · 1944
- Brown v. LowrySupreme Court of Georgia · 1938
3Cited by5 opinions
- Stephen Mokone v. Peter Fenton, Warden, Rahway State Prison James R. Zazzalli, Attorney General of N.J. Christopher Dietz, Chairman, N.J. Parole BoardCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1983
- Mathews v. FosterSupreme Court of Georgia · 1953
- Jeffers v. State of GeorgiaSupreme Court of Georgia · 1962
- Soviero v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1964
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