THE PEOPLE EX REL. COATS v. SAIN

No. 36621.

24 Ill.2d 248 (1962)

181 N.E.2d 179

THE PEOPLE ex rel. Ocie Lee Coats, Appellant, v. FRANK SAIN, Sheriff of Cook County, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed March 23, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

RAGAN & ROBINSON, of Chicago, (EDMOND W. RAGAN, of counsel,) for appellant.

WILLIAM G. CLARK, Attorney General, of Springfield, and DANIEL P. WARD, State's Attorney, of Chicago, (FRED G. LEACH and E. MICHAEL O'BRIEN, Assistant Attorneys General, and JOHN T. GALLAGHER, and MARVIN E. ASPEN, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel,) for appellee.


Judgment reversed.

Mr. CHIEF JUSTICE HERSHEY delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from an order of the criminal court of Cook County quashing a writ of habeas corpus and remanding relator to custody.

The relator, Ocie Lee Coats, was arrested by the sheriff of Cook County on the authority of a rendition warrant issued by the Governor of Illinois on the requisition of the Governor of Alabama. A petition for a writ of habeas...

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