Sloss v. Sheriff of Leavenworth County

Foth, C.J.:

This is an extradition habeas corpus case in which petitioner appeals from an order dissolving the writ and remanding him into custody for extradition to Texas.

On June 20, 1977, petitioner pleaded guilty in Texas to two charges, one a weapons charge, the other burglary. The Texas court sentenced him to two to fifteen years on one count and five to fifteen years on the other, to run concurrently with a prior federal sentence.

He was released to federal authorities who transferred him to the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas. Upon his release from that institution in…