Thacker v. State

The state introduced on the trial the warrant issued by the Governor of Alabama, together with the return of the sheriff of Cullman county. Insistence was made that this evidence did not make out a prima facie case for the state. The return of the sheriff rests upon the sufficiency of the warrant of the Govern- or, which recites' the jurisdictional facts which the law requires the Governor to find before issuing his warrant. To this end it was within the province of the Govern- or to require the production of satisfactory evidence of the existence of these facts. Being a matter of official…