Hughes v. Waters

LeGRAND, Justice.

This appeal seeks to reverse the trial court’s order annulling a writ of habeas corpus by which plaintiff hopes to defeat the state of California’s efforts to extradite him to face pending criminal charges there. The defendant is the sheriff of Wapello County, who took plaintiff into custody on a governor’s warrant of arrest. On the scant record before us, we must reverse and order plaintiff discharged from custody.

The case was submitted on the pleadings and four written exhibits. No other evidence was produced by either party. The exhibits were: (1) the governor’s warrant of…