Dufton v. Daniels

This is an application for a writ of mandate to compel the state board of control to audit and allow petitioner’s claim for his necessary traveling expenses as a state agent in returning to the state of California a fugitive-from justice, under the provisions of section 1557 of the Penal Code. The admitted facts are that one Newell, a fugitive from justice under a charge in Alameda County of a violation of section 476a of the Penal Code, was arrested in the state of New York. Thereupon the Governor of California issued a demand for his extradition and appointed petitioner a state agent for…