BENTON v. RHYNE

No. 40,387

180 Kan. 176 (1956)

302 P.2d 540

ALLEN BENTON, alias ALEX DE GOODE, Appellant, v. ARDEN RHYNE, Sheriff of Leavenworth County, Kansas, et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed October 23, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen Benton, alias Alex DeGoode, appellant, was on the brief pro se.

John Anderson, Jr., Attorney General, and Robert J. Roth, Assistant Attorney General, were on the brief for the appellees.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

PRICE, J.:

This case arises out of an attempt by the state of South Carolina to extradite appellant, and the appeal is from a judgment of the district court of Leavenworth County denying a writ of habeas corpus.

From such record as there is before us, the factual background of the matter appears to be substantially as follows:

In January, 1955, appellant was arrested in the District of Columbia, such...

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