Lyle v. Kieback

Plaintiff in error was petitioner in the trial court, and we will refer to him as such.

He filed a petition for habeas corpus to test the sufficiency of extradition papers. The writ issued, and after hearing thereon the writ was discharged and petitioner remanded to custody.

Petitioner was an escapee from the state penitentiary of Missouri on July 22, 1956, where he was serving a sentence of life imprisonment after conviction of the crime of murder in the first degree. The conviction had been affirmed by the Supreme Court of Missouri. Having been found in the state of Colorado in the month of…