State Ex Rel. Florio v. McGreary

This writ of error brings before us for review a judgment of the Circuit Court for Dade County in habeas corpus proceedings remanding the petitioner to custody. The return of the respondent officer showed that petitioner had been arrested on a “fugitive warrant” and that after his arrest the Governor had granted extradition. The petitioner traversed the allegations of the answer.

Upon the hearing, it developed that the petitioner was being held under an executive warrant of extradition, duly executed by the Governor of this State, which was in the usual form and regular upon its face, and…