Harris v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court denying appellant’s discharge on habeas corpus.

The appellant sought his discharge from arrest made by the Sheriff of Elmore County pursuant to a rendition warrant issued by the Governor of Alabama at the request of the Governor of Georgia, the appellant having been charged with the offense of child abandonment in Georgia.

By appropriate pleading the petitioner' challenged the legality of his restraint by the sheriff under the rendition warrant issued by the Governor of Alabama.

At the hearing below the State offered in…