HARWELL v. SULLIVAN

No. 25438.

503 P.2d 618 (1972)

Upon The Petition of Kenneth Eugene HARWELL By His Next Friend, Mary E. Heflin, Petitioner-Appellant, and Concerning Earl L. SULLIVAN, Sheriff, and Wilmer Foxworth, Respondents-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied December 18, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Robert Barash, Dorothy E. Tomasetti, Larry R. Gaddis, Colorado Springs, Joe A. Cannon, National Juvenile Law Center, St. Louis, Mo., for petitioner-appellant.

Robert L. Russel, Dist. Atty., Bernard R. Baker, Deputy Dist. Atty., Colorado Springs, for respondents-appellees.


DAY, Justice.

Petitioner Harwell's writ of habeas corpus was quashed in the El Paso District Court, where he sought release in an extradition proceeding to return him to the state of Oregon.

Harwell was convicted of an adult crime in the Eighth Circuit Court of Baker County, Oregon, after entering a plea of guilty. Although he represented to the Oregon court that he was 20 years of age, he was actually aged 16. After judgment of conviction, he escaped from...

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