STATE vs. DIRECTOR OF PRISONS; EX PARTE SCHUMANN

JUDGMENT OF AKUFO-ADDO C.J. This is an appeal from the decision of the High Court, Accra, refusing to grant an application for a writ of habeas corpus made by the appellant Dr. Horst Schumann, a German national resident in Ghana and who was on 25 August 1966, committed to Ussher Fort Prison to await orders for his extradition to the Federal Republic of Germany to stand trial on a charge of murder. The charge of murder brought against the appellant by the Federal Republic of Germany arose out of the brutal excesses of the Nazi regime in the period of World War II in furthering their political ideology which called for, among other things, the extermination of the Jewish race. The appellant has been resident in this country since 1959 and until 6 March 1966, has been in the employment of the government as a medical officer. He was arrested on a warrant issued by the District Magistrate, Accra, upon an order of the Government of Ghana made at the request of the Federal Republic of Ger...