Title: Muscia v. Turner

State: kansas

Issuer: Kansas Supreme Court

Document:

169 Kan. 445 (1950)
219 P.2d 353
JOE MUSCIA, Petitioner,
v.
LEONARD S. TURNER, Sheriff of Leavenworth County, and W.D. PARKER, Agent of the State of Missouri, Respondents.
No. 37,911

Supreme Court of Kansas.
Opinion filed June 10, 1950.
John H. Murray, of Leavenworth, was on the briefs for the petitioner.
Harold R. Fatzer, attorney general, Willis H. McQueary, assistant attorney general, and Colonel H. Boone, county attorney, were on the briefs for the respondents.
The opinion of the court was delivered by
WEDELL, J.:
This is an original proceeding in habeas corpus.
The petitioner has not filed an abstract as required by the rules of this court. Respondents have, however, prepared and filed a certified abstract consisting of the petition for a writ and the answer and return of respondents, the sheriff of Leavenworth county and W.C. Parker, agent of the state of Missouri.
Omitting caption the petition signed and certified by petitioner's counsel, reads:
Omitting caption the verified answer and return of respondents reads:
The warrant of the governor of Kansas is regular in form, addressed to the sheriff of any county in Kansas and directs such sheriff to deliver into the custody of the respondent, W.C. Parker, agent of the state of Missouri duly commissioned by the governor of Missouri, to receive said petitioner, a fugitive from the state of Missouri. Upon the issues joined by such pleading this court is asked to order the release of the petitioner.
It is elementary the burden of proof is upon a petitioner to establish his unlawful detention. (Miller v. Hudspeth, 164 Kan. 688, 192 P.2d 147; Pyle v. Hudspeth, 168 Kan. 706, 215 P.2d 157.) The proof must be by a clear and convincing preponderance of the evidence. *447 (Bissell v. Amrine, 159 Kan. 358, 155 P.2d 413.) The pleadings heretofore mentioned are the only record presently before this court in the instant proceeding. There is no evidence whether petitioner was released outright and permanently or conditionally by the federal authorities at the time the sheriff of Leavenworth county took him into custody pursuant to the warrant of the governor of this state. Moreover the matter of petitioner's custody is one of comity between the federal and state governments and as such is a subject over which petitioner has no voice. (Powell v. Turner, 167 Kan. 524, 530, 207 P.2d 492.)
In his brief counsel for petitioner calls attention to a purported affidavit in which petitioner states to what facts he would testify were he personally present. The affidavit referred to is not competent evidence. It purports on its face to be only a copy of an alleged original affidavit. The original affidavit has not been filed in this court and is no part of the record before us. Moreover, if we gave full credit to the alleged facts contained in the copy of the purported affidavit it alone would not establish petitioner's right to release from custody.
The result is the petition for the writ must be denied. It is so ordered.