Commonwealth Ex Rel. Katz v. Philadelphia Prison Superintendent

Per Curiam,

The Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on January 21,1948, issued a warrant for the extradition of relator pursuant to a written demand- by the Governor of the State of New York requesting the return of relator to answer a charge of- grand larceny in the first degree with which he had been charged in the latter State. Relator was held in custody in the County of Philadelphia, and counsel filed on his behalf a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the court of quarter sessions of that county. It contained no specific averments of fact, but merely a general allegation…