IN RE FLOYD

Docket No. Crim. 5602.

43 Cal.2d 379 (1954)

273 P.2d 820

In re DENZEL LEE FLOYD on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

August 31, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph K. Robbins for Petitioner.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Chief Assistant Attorney General, G.A. Strader, Deputy Attorney General, James Don Keller, District Attorney (San Diego), and Olney R. Thorn, Deputy District Attorney, for Respondent.

S. Ernest Roll, District Attorney (Los Angeles), and Harold O. Pressman, Deputy District Attorney, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondent.


SPENCE, J.

Petitioner seeks through habeas corpus his release from his detention for the purpose of extradition to Ohio upon a charge of the crime of nonsupport of a minor child. The question presented is whether the alleged fugitive obligor may initiate proceedings in a court of this state, thereby voluntarily submitting to its jurisdiction, and upon compliance with its support order, be relieved from extradition. Petitioner contends that such procedure is open to...

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