In re Sylvester

Citations

• 21 Wash. 263
• 57 P. 829
• 1899 Wash. LEXIS 273

Syllabus

<p>APPEALABLE ORDER-HABEAS CORPUS PROCEEDINGS.</p> <p>An order dismissing an application for a writ of habeas corpus and remanding the petitioner into custody is appealable.</p> <p>HABEAS CORPUS — PROCEDURE—PRODUCTION OE EXTRADITION PAPERS.</p> <p>One having the custody of an alleged fugitive from justice will not be compelled, on a hearing on habeas corpus, to produce the papers accompanying the requisition of the governor of the demanding state.</p> <p>EXTRADITION-SUFFICIENCY OF WARRANT.</p> <p>An extradition warrant constitutes a sufficient authority for an arrest and extradition, under U. S. Rev. St. § 5278, where it recites a demand hy the governor of another state for the rendition of the prisoner as a fugitive from justice, accompanied by affidavits, complaint, information, indictment and warrant, from which it appears that he is charged in the demanding state with embezzlement, and that the papers accompanying the requisition were duly authenticated by the governor of that state.</p>