State ex rel. Yarbrough v. Snider

The petitioner Timothy George Yarbrough appeals from an order of the circuit court discharging his writ of habeas corpus and remanding him to the custody of the respondent sheriff of Josephine county.

The petitioner’s detention arises out of a requisition of the Governor of California demanding the return of the petitioner as a fugitive from justice on the basis of escape from legal custody. The Governor of the state of Oregon decided that the demand should be complied with and issued the warrant for petitioner’s arrest.

ORS 147.030 provides:

“No demand for the extradition of a person charged…