Holmes v. People
| Decision Date | 30 June 1969 |
| Docket Number | No. 23412,23412 |
| Citation | 169 Colo. 371,456 P.2d 731 |
| Parties | James Edward HOLMES, Plaintiff in Error, v. PEOPLE of the State of Colorado and Howard K. Phillips, Manager of Safety andEx-Officio Sheriff of the City and County of Denver, Defendants in Error. |
| Court | Colorado Supreme Court |
Gertrude A. Score, Denver, for plaintiff in error.
Duke W. Dunbar, Atty. Gen., John P. Moore, Deputy Atty. Gen., George De Roos, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for defendants in error.
James Edward Holmes, hereinafter designated as the petitioner, pleaded guilty to a charge of armed robbery in Mississippi in March of 1961 and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Thereafter, he escaped from confinement. On November 21, 1967, the Governor of Mississippi issued his request to the Governor of the State of Colorado that petitioner be extradited to Mississippi. The Acting Governor of the State of Colorado thereupon issued a warrant for petitioner's arrest.
Petitioner then sought a writ of habeas corpus in the district court and the writ issued. Return was filed to the writ and, after hearing, the trial court discharged the writ.
Petitioner contends here (1) that the indictment upon which he was convicted was faulty, and (2) that Mississippi violated his constitutional rights in accepting his guilty plea without benefit of counsel. He contends that because of these reasons, the extradition warrants are void and the trial court should have made the writ of habeas corpus permanent.
We have pointed out recently in several cases that where a fugitive stands convicted of a crime and thereafter escapes from confinement, all that is required to sustain an extradition to the demanding state is a statement to such effect by the executive authority of the demanding state supported by a copy of the judgment or of the sentence imposed in execution thereof. Burnete v. McClearn, 162 Colo. 503, 427 P.2d 331; Lyle v. Kieback, 139 Colo. 149, 337 P.2d 392; Travis v. People, 135 Colo. 141, 308 P.2d 997. The papers attached to Mississippi's request for extradition meet that test.
Petitioner urges strongly that his allegations that in securing his conviction Mississippi violated both his federal and Mississippi constitutional rights, entitled him to a hearing in the Colorado court on those points. He contends that if his allegations are proven to be true, then he is entitled to have the writ of habeas corpus made permanent. He exhorts us to follow In re Hunt, ...
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