Hobbs v. Tennessee Ex Rel. State

RICE, Judge.

Appellant was arrested under a Governor’s warrant issued by the Governor of Alabama on the requisition of the Governor of Tennessee, the said warrant reciting that appellant was “charged by affidavit & warrant (sic) in the county of Shelby in said State (Tennessee), with the crime of feloniously obtaining property by means of a bad check (a duly certified copy of which warrant & affidavit accompanies said requisition).”

He sued out a writ of habeas corpus seeking his discharge from the custody of the Sheriff of Limestone County, who made the arrest, and, from the judgment of the…