Ellis v. Grimes

Bell, Chief Justice.

There is no insistence that the requisition and exhibits as presented to the Governor of Georgia were not in proper form or were not prima facie sufficient to authorize the Governor to issue his rendition warrant; but it is insisted that on the hearing of the application for habeas corpus, it was a judicial question as to whether the “supporting affidavits” were sufficient to make out the charge on which the requisition was based, there being no indictment; that the evidence in the habeas-corpus case not only failed to show that the female was “of previous chaste and…