People Ex Rel. Buxton v. Jeremiah

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Randolph county quashing a writ of habeas corpus. The petition for the writ was filed on the relation of Herbert Buxton pursuant to section 2 of the act relating to fugitives from justice, which provides that one arrested as a fugitive from justice may, for any one or more of five different specified causes, have a writ of habeas corpus upon filing an affidavit alleging the cause. Two of such grounds are: “That the requisition and papers are not in regular and legal form,” and that the petitioner “is not a fugitive from the justice of…