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RUTLEDGE v. TOLBERT

32774.

240 Ga. 116 (1977)

239 S.E.2d 520

RUTLEDGE v. TOLBERT.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided November 1, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Mullins Whisnant, District Attorney, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Susan V. Boleyn, Staff Assistant Attorney General, for appellant.

John C. Swearingen, for appellee.

NICHOLS, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by the respondent from a habeas corpus judgment ordering the petitioner released from custody. The petitioner was arrested by virtue of a governor's warrant for extradition to the State of New York on demand of the governor of that state. The petition for habeas corpus alleged that the papers which passed between the governors of the demanding state and asylum state were not legally sufficient and that he was not in the demanding...

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