People Ex Rel. Hogan v. Ogilvie

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court of Cook County quashing a writ of habeas corpus filed on behalf of the relator, Grover Cleveland Hogan, who was.being held by the sheriff of Cook County pursuant to a warrant of rendition issued by the Governor.

It appears that the relator Hogan, a Negro, was convicted of armed robbery in Alabama and thereafter escaped from an Alabama prison. The State of Alabama sought to extradite Hogan and duly obtained a warrant of rendition from the Governor of Illinois on June 14, 1965. A writ of habeas corpus was issued out of the circuit court of…