Little v. Beckstead

McDonough, justice.

Plaintiff Gordon S. Little brought this appeal alleging that the lower court erred in not allowing him to challenge the legal sufficiency of the proceedings that would extradite him from Utah to Oregon.

Plaintiff was convicted of burglary and forgery in Oregon, in 1943. In the same proceeding he was found to have violated the Habitual Criminal Act of that state. The sentences to imprisonment imposed by the court were: five years for burglary, three years for forgery, and life imprisonment for being an habitual criminal. When plaintiff had served the time for the burglary and…