Ex parte Moore, 41569
Decision Date | 06 November 1968 |
Docket Number | No. 41569,41569 |
Citation | 436 S.W.2d 901 |
Parties | Ex parte James Arthur MOORE. |
Court | Texas Court of Criminal Appeals |
Goldsmith & McClure, by Toby Goldsmith, Fort Worth, for appellant.
Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.
This is an appeal from an order entered in a habeas corpus proceeding in the 12th District Court of Walker County remanding appellant to custody for extradition to the State of Nevada.
At the hearing the State introduced into evidence the Executive Warrant of the Governor of Texas, the requisition and supporting papers. These papers reflect that James Arthur Moore is charged in the State of Nevada with the offense of robbery, alleged to have occurred on or about October 20, 1963, in the township of Las Vegas, County of Clark.
As the sole witness in his behalf, appellant denied ever having been in Nevada and expressly denied he was in that state on the date of the alleged offense and testified further that if a James A. Moore did commit such an offense, he was not that person. He did not, however, deny that he was the James Arthur Moore named in the Governor's Warrant, requisition and other papers. On cross-examination the State unsuccessfully sought to have appellant identify State's Exhibit No. 4 as a written confession he had given in Port Arthur, Texas on November 14, 1963, admitting the Las Vegas robbery in question.
Under the Facts presented, we find no merit in appellant's claim that the trial court erred 'in sustaining the presumption of the identity of name' after appellant's testimony.
It is well established that the introduction of a Governor's Warrant, if regular on its face, is sufficient to make out a prima facie case authorizing extradition. Ex parte Kronhaus, Tex.Cr.App., 410 S.W.2d 442; Ex parte Juarez, Tex.Cr.App., 410 S.W.2d 444; Ex parte Hoover, 164 Tex.Cr.R. 251, 298 S.W.2d 579; 1 Branch's Anno.P.C., 2d ed., Sec. 269, p. 308.
In 25 Tex.Jur.2d, Extradition, Sec. 31, pp. 182--183, it is said:
(Emphasis supplied)
Upon the introduction of the Governor's Warrant it then became incumbent upon the appellant to show that he was not the person charged in the demanding state. Ex parte Kaufman, 168 Tex.Cr.R. 55, 323 S.W.2d 48 and cases therein cited.
In Ex parte Kaufman, supra, this Court said:
'Appellant correctly contends that the burden of proof is upon the demanding state to show that the person taken into custody and held for extradition is the identical person named in the Governor's Warrant, where such identity is put in issue.
'The rule applicable is thus stated in 39 C.J.S. Habeas Corpus § 39(a), pp. 551--552:
In Kaufman, as here, and unlike Ex parte Ryan, 168 Tex.Cr.R. 351, 327 S.W.2d 596, relied upon by appellant, no evidence was offered that appellant was not the James Arthur Moore named in the Governor's Warrant. Thus the presumption arising from the Executive Warrant was not overcome.
It should be kept in mind that a distinction is to be made between testimony offered by an appellant denying that he is the person named in the Governor's Warrant and testimony that he was not in the demanding state at time of the alleged offense or other testimony...
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