Frazier v. Grimes

Candler, Presiding Justice.

The Governor of Georgia, on demand from the Governor of Arkansas, issued an extradition warrant for Johnny Lamar Frazier. He was arrested on such warrant in Fulton County and committed to the common jail of that county. He brought habeas corpus against T. Ralph Grimes, the Sheriff of Fulton County and alleged that his detention was illegal because the requisition made by the Governor of Arkansas is void on its face since an affidavit attached thereto was sworn to before a notary public of the demanding State. No other attack was made on the regularity and validity…