Ex Parte Woodland

In his motion for rehearing, relator presents a matter not heretofore urged. He now insists that the indictment in the demanding state is fatally defective and that it charges him with no offense in that State. In support of this contention, he calls attention to the fact that the indictment alleged that the offense was commited "__________ on or about the __________ day of __________ 1943," and that there is nothing to show that the laws of the demanding State authorize the date of the offense charged to be so alleged in an indictment. He therefore concludes that, under the presumption that…