Court Opinion

ID: 9624456
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 07:03:29.153894+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:05:46.905866
License: Public Domain

ON DENIAL OF PETITION FOR REHEARING
BISTLINE, Justice.
The State of Idaho, through the office of the Attorney General, though not a party to nor participant on this appeal, has asked for a rehearing.
As an excuse for not having participated in the appeal, the State points to office error in having initially viewed the habeas corpus proceeding against Sheriff Wilcox as being civil in nature.
The State wants the cause reheard in order to urge upon us that the issuance of a governor’s warrant renders moot irregularities in prerequisition arrest and detention. Our opinion of February 3, 1978, might have sufficed to show our own knowledge in that regard, and therein we wondered why Struve had not been processed under a governor’s warrant.
In its petition, the State attaches a copy of a governor’s warrant which issued on the 2d day of June, 1976, and a sheriff’s return showing that a copy of the same was served upon Struve. The return, in all respects similar to a return of civil process, does not show or suggest that Struve was arrested pursuant to the warrant. The petition does not suggest that Struve, if arrested, was taken before a magistrate as required by both state and federal statutes. Nor does the petition claim that the State of South Dakota continues to want Struve returned.
The petition for rehearing is denied.
DONALDSON and BAKES, JJ., and DUNLAP, District Judge (ret.), concur.