Earhart v. Hicks

OPINION

DAUGHTREY, Judge.

The petitioners in this habeas corpus action successfully contested the state’s authority to hold them in custody for extradition to the State of Mississippi, where they had been indicted for conspiracy to violate Mississippi’s controlled substances act. The state appeals the trial court’s order granting the writ and ordering the petitioners’ discharge. We conclude that the result reached by the trial judge was correct, and we therefore affirm the judgment.

The issue in this case is whether the extradition papers were legally sufficient to permit rendition on the…