People ex rel. Debono v. Board of Police Commissioners

The relator Velodi is held under a warrant issued by the governor upon the demand of the governor of Virginia on a charge of murder alleged to have been committed in Alexandria county, Va., on the -9th day of January, 1915. The relator, upon the return of a writ of habeas corpus, issued pursuant to section 827 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, denies *249that he was present in the state of Virginia on that day. In the case of McNichols v. Pease, 207 U. S. 100, the Supreme Court of the United States, in an opinion by Mr. Justice Harlan, stated that after a demand is made for the extradition of an…