ALLEN v. STATE

No. 58148.

515 So.2d 890 (1987)

Richard C. ALLEN v. STATE of Mississippi and Duane Dillon, Sheriff of Pike County.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

November 4, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald L. Whittington, McComb, Kitchens & Pickard, Hazlehurst, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Marvin L. White, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Henry C. Clay, III, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellees.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, C.J., and PRATHER and SULLIVAN, JJ.


PRATHER, Justice, for the Court:

An extradition request from the demanding state of Alaska for return of a fugitive within this state preceded a habeas corpus petition in the Pike County Circuit Court. The focus of this Court's opinion is on the standard of the courts of the asylum state in reviewing a release on habeas corpus.

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Richard C. Allen was charged by indictment in the State of Alaska with the sexual assault of his minor stepdaughter....

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