Gillis v. Leekley
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Hatch, J., entered December 15, 1904, after a hearing in habeas corpus, remanding to custody a prisoner extradited to Alaska.
1Opinion of the CourtKudkin, J.
This is an appeal from an order quashing a writ of habeas corpus, and remanding the prisoner. It appears from the writ and the return thereto that the appellant is held under a rendition warrant, issued by the governor of this state, upon the demand of the acting governor of the district of Alaska, and that the respondent is the agent designated in the rendition warrant to transfer the appellant to the district of Alaska for trial.
The first point urged on the- appeal is that the respondent failed to establish the identity of the appellant as the person accused of crime, and named in the…
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