Ex parte Morrison

Ex parte Morrison
1915 OK CR 171
148 P. 1148
11 Okl.Cr. 733
Case Number: No. A-2335
Decided: 05/25/1915
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Petition of James Morrison for writ of habeas corpus. Writ denied.

J.Q.A. Harrod, for petitioner.

E.G. McAdams, for the State.

Page 734

PER CURIAM. The petition filed in this court September 15, 1914, on behalf of said James Morrison alleges in substance that he is unlawfully restrained of his liberty by M.C. Binion, sheriff of Oklahoma county, by virtue of a warrant issued by the Governor of the state of Oklahoma at the instance and request of the Governor of the state of Kentucky; that said restraint is illegal, for that your petitioner denies that he, at any time, fled from the state of Kentucky to avoid prosecution for any crime committed within its borders; denies that he at any time received any money or property while in the state of Kentucky from the persons named in said requisition papers on which said Governor's warrant was issued, and denies that he was in the state of Kentucky at the time of the commission of the crime alleged, but alleges that if there was ever any crime committed by virtue of the five hundred dollars or the property mentioned in the requisition papers by this petitioner, it was committed in the state of West Virginia, and not in the state of Kentucky.