Rutledge v. Tolbert

Nichols, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by the respondent from a habeas corpus judgment ordering the petitioner released from custody. The petitioner was arrested by virtue of a governor’s warrant for extradition to the State of New York on demand of the governor of that state. The petition for habeas corpus alleged that the papers which passed between the governors of the demanding state and asylum state were not legally sufficient and that he was not in the demanding state at the time of the commission of the crime charged, violation of the Controlled Substances Act.. The habeas court,…