People Ex Rel. Brown v. Jackson

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court of Will County quashing a writ of habeas corpus and remanding William H. Brown, Jr., the relator, to the custody of the defendant, Martin Jackson, sheriff of Will County, for extradition to the State of Louisiana. The writ was issued upon the relator’s petition and after his arrest upon a rendition warrant issued by the Governor of Illinois at the request of the Governor of Louisiana. At the time, he was incarcerated in the Illinois penitentiary at Joliet and was in the process of being paroled. He contends here that the demand and…