Stynchcombe v. Rhodes

Ingram, Justice.

The Sheriff of Fulton County appeals from an order of the superior court of that county which determined that the respondent was entitled to be discharged from an extradition warrant issued by the Governor of Georgia for the surrender of the respondent to the State of Tennessee for trial in connection with a robbery alleged to have been committed in that state.

After the Governor of Georgia honored the demand of the State of Tennessee to extradite the respondent, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus was filed on behalf of the respondent and a hearing was held in Fulton…