Swann v. State

On May 10, 1943, petitioner was arrested by the sheriff of Bradley county upon a warrant issued by the Governor of this state on an application of the State of California to extradite petitioner as a fugitive from that state. He was charged in the Municipal court of Los Angeles county with the crime of statutory rape, committed in said county on certain days in January, 1943, for which a warrant of arrest had been issued from said court. He prosecuted a habeas corpus proceeding against the sheriff in the Bradley circuit court to be discharged. His petition there, after setting out the above…