ALSCHULER, Circuit Judge.
The appeal is from an order of the District Court discharging a writ of habeas corpus which had been granted to take appellant from the custody of the sheriff of Cook county, Ill., who was holding him under a fugitive warrant of the Governor of Illinois, to return him to the state of Mississippi to answer to a charge of murder there pending against him.
The sheriff's return sets up the Governor's warrant as the authority for holding...
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