Case ID: sw_170/html/0145-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HARPER, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex parte HANCOCK.
    (No. 3322.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Oct. 21, 1914.)
    Habeas Corpus (§ 92*) — Scope of Inquiry-Extradition.
    Where a person is arrested for extradition as a fugitive from justice, the question of his guilt or innocence will not be tried.
    [Ed. Note. — Eor other cases, see Habeas Corpus^ Cent. Dig. §§ 81, 83, 87-96; Dec. Dig. §
    Appeal from District Court, Montague County; C. E. Spencer, Judge.
    Habeas corpus by Jud Hancock. From á judgment remanding relator to custody, he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    C. E. Lane, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   HARPER, J.

Appellant was arrested under a complaint charging him with being, a refugee from justice. Upon a trial, the justice of the peace entered a judgment remanding him to the custody of the officer. He sued out a writ of habeas corpus before 1-Ion. C. F. Spencer, judge of the district court of the Sixteenth judicial district. Upon hearing the application, Judge Spencer remanded him to the custody of the officers. It is made to appear by the record that between the time of his arrest and the hearing had before Judge Spencer, his excellency

Gov. O. B. Colquitt, on the requisition of the Governor of Oklahoma, had granted extradition papers and ordered delivery of relator to J. W. Biffle, the agent of the Governor of Oklahoma, to be by him taken back to stand trial for an offense pending in that state.

The only evidence offered by appellant is, he testified he was not guilty of the offense charged. This issue will not be tried here, but can be tried in the court where the offense is pending. The questions herein raised were discussed, and disposed of adversely to appellant’s contention in the case of Ex parte Stanley, 25 Tex. App. 376, 8 S. W. 645, 8 Am. St. Rep. 440, and relator is remanded.

Affirmed.