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PEOPLE EX REL. HEARD v. BABB

No. 32242.

412 Ill. 507 (1952)

107 N.E.2d 740

THE PEOPLE ex rel. Lester Heard, Jr., Appellant, v. JOHN E. BABB, Sheriff, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied September 15, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

EDWARD J. FRUCHTMAN, of Chicago, for appellant.

IVAN A. ELLIOTT, Attorney General, of Springfield, and JOHN S. BOYLE, State's Attorney, of Chicago, (JOHN T. GALLAGHER, RUDOLPH L. JANEGA, ARTHUR F. MANNING, WILLIAM J. McGAH, JR., and JAMES V. CUNNINGHAM, all of Chicago, of counsel,) for the People.

Order affirmed.

Mr. JUSTICE CRAMPTON delivered the opinion of the court:

Lester Heard, Jr., was apprehended as a fugitive from justice by authority of a Governor's warrant issued upon the request of the Governor of Tennessee. The sheriff produced him before the criminal court of Cook County, and Heard then filed a petition in that court for a writ of habeas corpus. He alleged, among other things, that he was not a fugitive from justice, and that the...

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