United States ex rel. Tyler v. Henderson

WEST, Chief Judge:

Petitioner, Clarence Tyler, was convicted of armed robbery in Mississippi in 1959. He had served approximately one month of the sentence imposed upon him for that offense in Mississippi when on July 13, 1959, he was released to North Carolina authorities to serve a sentence which had been imposed by that State for an offense, the nature of which the record does not reveal, prior to the one imposed by Mississippi. When he finished serving his sentence in North Carolina on October 7, 1965, he was met with a demand for extradition filed by the Mississippi authorities who sought…