Ex Parte Patrick

This is an original action instituted by the petitioner, Lee Roy Patrick, to secure a writ of ha-beas corpus directed to the sheriff of Johnston county; the prisoner alleging he is being unlawfully restrained of his liberty in the county jail of Johnston county.

The verified petition alleges in substance that the petitioner is held in the county jail of Johnston county, State of Oklahoma, by reason of his arrest on a warrant issued by the Governor of Oklahoma, for his extradition to the State of California to answer a prosecution there pending against him for the alleged crime of desertion of…