Bedsole v. State, 4 Div. 311
| Decision Date | 27 November 1956 |
| Docket Number | 4 Div. 311 |
| Citation | 91 So.2d 221,38 Ala.App. 624 |
| Parties | John Loyd BEDSOLE v. STATE. |
| Court | Alabama Court of Appeals |
R. Clayton Wiggins, Dothan, for appellant.
John Patterson, Atty. Gen., and Robt. Straub, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
August 8, 1955 Bedsole applied to the Circuit Court of Houston County for habeas corpus to the sheriff of that county. The writ was issued and served August 8 and a hearing held August 11 at 9:00 a. m. upon the petition and the return and a supplemental return of the sheriff.
Bedsole alleged unlawful detention because of the illegal issuance of a Alabama rendition warrant predicated on a request from the Governor of Florida.
The sheriff's return stated Bedsole was held under (1) the warrant of the Governor of Alabama, (2) an affidavit and a fugitive warrant of the Houston Law and Equity Court, and (3) a judgment of that court sentencing Bedsole to a term of hard labor for the county on a charge of driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated.
Upon the hearing, the State offered in evidence a rendition warrant of the Governor of Alabama reciting a demand upon him by the Governor of Florida for Bedsole's surrender upon a charge by affidavit and warrant of assault to murder. The rendition warrant further recited that 'a duly certified copy' of the affidavit accompanied the Florida Governor's requisition. This rendition warrant, dated July 27, 1955, commanded the arrest and delivery of Bedsole to a named agent of the State of Florida. Next the solicitor offered the sheriff's returns to the writ and rested.
Whereupon the prisoner demanded of the State the production of the Florida Governor's requisition, together with a certified copy of the affidavit made before the magistrate in Florida.
After a colloquy between bench and bar, the court granted (over Bedsole's objection) a recess to allow the State time to get a certified copy of the original affidavit and warrant, apparently from Marianna, Florida. Upon reconvening at 11:20 a. m. the State produced and offered in evidence a copy from the County Judge's Court of Jackson County, Florida, of what was certified by the judge thereof to be 'the Original Affidavit and Warrant in Re: State of Florida vs. John Lloyd Bedsole' whereunder complaint was made against and Bedsole's arrest ordered for an assault and battery with intent to murder. Bedsole objected to the introduction of this copy on the ground that it was not authenticated by the Governor of...
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