Hill v. Griffin

Undercofler, Justice.

This appeal is from the dismissal of a writ of habeas corpus seeking the release of petitioner who is being detained under extradition proceedings based on felony indictments returned in Tennessee.

Petitioner enumerates as error: (1) The refusal of the trial court to grant him a sixty-day “extension” of time to investigate the selection of the Tennessee grand jury which re*379turned the indictments, and (2) That the court erred in dismissing the writ in view of the substantial evidence that the county in which the indictments were returned had been saturated with newspaper and…