People ex rel. Spence v. Sheriff of Rensselaer

Appeal from a judgment of the Comity Court of Rensselaer County, entered October 9, 1973, which denied petitioner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus and commanded that he be turned over to the proper authorities of the Commonwealth of Virginia to answer charges in that domain. On March 26, 1973 in Justice Court for the Town of Nassau, Rensselaer County, petitioner pled guilty to a charge of hitchhiking and was thereafter sentenced to two days in the county jail. While he was so confined, a warrant charging him with being a fugitive from justice was lodged with the jailor by the *868Commonwe…