In Re Williams

The governor of this state, upon the request of the executive of the State of Florida, issued his mandate for the arrest of the relator, Walter G. Williams, as a fugitive from justice, and that he be delivered to the agent of the State of Florida designated to receive him for delivery to that state. Upon being taken into custody by the sheriff of Somerset county the relator sued out a writ of habeas corpus, to be set at large, claiming that the mandate was unlawfully issued, and assigned as grounds various infirmities in the requisition; that he had committed no crime in Florida; that he is…