Boothe v. State

CATES, Judge.

This habeas corpus appeal was argued and submitted on November 15, 1963. It has been assigned and reassigned.

The conference at which this opinion was adopted is the first at which unanimity, let alone affirmance, has come about. Delay in this court arose principally because the extraditing authorities (1) took apparently inconsistent grounds for wanting to return Boothe, and (2) failing to prove Georgia decisional and statutory law under the Alabama rules of evidence as was done in Compton v. State, 152 Ala. 68, 44 So. 685, affirmed sub nom. Compton v. State of Alabama, 214 U.S.…