Schreiber

The petitioner was arrested on a warrant issued by the Governor of Massachusetts pursuant to a demand for rendition by the Governor of Connecticut. The demand stated that the petitioner “stands charged with the crime of violation of the conditions of his probation which I certify to be a crime under the laws of this State.”

In his appeal from the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus by a judge of the Superior Court, the petitioner urges that the rendition documents are insufficient under G. L. c. 276, § 14, because he is charged with a violation of probation rather than with a…