Graham v. State

Gunter, Justice.

This is an appeal from an adverse habeas corpus judgment, the application for the writ having been made pursuant to the terms of the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act, Code Ann. § 44-411.

The record shows that the appellant was previously convicted of a crime in Tennessee, but that the sentence following conviction had never been served because appellant was serving another sentence in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. The appellant was released from the federal penitentiary in June of 1971 and has since resided in Georgia.

Extradition proceedings were instituted by…