PEOPLE EX REL. TAYLOR v. JOHNSON

No. 43075.

47 Ill.2d 103 (1970)

264 N.E.2d 198

THE PEOPLE ex rel. Eddy Junior Taylor, Appellant, v. HAROLD T. JOHNSON, Sheriff, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed November 18, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

MORTON ZWICK, Director of Defender Project, of Chicago, (THEODORE A. GOTTFRIED and JOHN L. BARTON, of counsel,) for appellant.

WILLIAM J. SCOTT, Attorney General, of Springfield, and WILLIAM K. O'CONNOR, State's Attorney, of Cambridge, (FRED G. LEACH and THOMAS J. IMMEL, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel,) for the People.


Judgment affirmed.

Mr. JUSTICE SCHAEFER delivered the opinion of the court:

The relator, Eddy Junior Taylor, is being held for extradition to Ohio to complete a sentence in the Ohio reformatory from which he escaped. He appeals from an order of the circuit court of Henry County which quashed a writ of habeas corpus and remanded him to the custody of the respondent, the county sheriff, for delivery to agents of the State of Ohio.

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