Seigler v. Canterbury

This action is for review of dismissal of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. According to the record the petitioner here seems to have dedicated himself to being a career burglar. To be “bagged” now and then and to make occasional sojourns in prison, is apparently to him a mere calculated and “professional” risk.

A determination of this writ of error revolves around extradition proceedings and plaintiff in error’s summary of argument is to the effect that the doctrine of res judicata is applicable where extradition has once been refused and could not later on, at a later hearing, be…