Tingley v. State

SIMPSON, Justice.

The State petitions for writ of certiorari. The Court of Appeals, by a divided court, reversed and remanded a judgment in a habeas corpus proceeding rendered by the Hon. Robert J. Wheeler, circuit judge of Jefferson County, Alabama, denying the discharge from custody of Harold Nelson Tingley (appellant in the Court of Appeals), held under an extradition warrant issued by the Governor of Alabama on the request of the Governor of California. •

The defense to the extradition was that the proceedings were instituted in aid of the collection of a debt, demand, or claim against the…