Ex Parte Gradington and Jackson

HAWKINS,

On March 30, 1921, relators filed an application for writ of habeas corpus before Honorable S. G. Tayloe, Judge of the 45th District Court, of Bexar County, Texas. The applications were in proper form and will not be set out in full. The applications were granted, and in response John W. Tobin, Sheriff of Bexar County, responded that 'he was holding the relators by virtue of an extradition warrant issued by the Governor of Texas, directing delivery of the parties to Robert B. Stubbs, agent of the State of Louisiana, to convey the relators back to that State for trial.

Prior to the…