People Ex Rel. Gilarmini v. Elrod

This appeal involves an effort by the State of Indiana to extradite relator, Nicholas Gilarmini. After his arrest by the sheriff of Cook County on the authority of a rendition warrant issued by the Governor of Illinois, on the requisition of the Governor of Indiana, the relator filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the circuit court of Cook County to test the legality of the arrest and detention and of the rendition warrant. Following a hearing, the writ was quashed and relator was remanded to the custody of the sheriff for delivery to the appropriate Indiana authorities. The issue…