Ex Parte Jackson

This is an original action in habeas corpus by petitioner, Buell B. Jackson, to secure his release from confinement in the county jail of Pontotoc county, where he is held awaiting extradition to the State of Arizona to face a criminal charge of murder there pending against petitioner.

At the hearing before this court, no attack was made upon the sufficiency or legality of the extradition papers, which were used as a basis to secure the warrant issued by the Governor of Oklahoma, but the petitioner sought his release upon the sole ground that he was not a fugitive from justice as that- term is…