RICHARDSON v. CRONIN

No. 79SA341.

621 P.2d 949 (1980)

Miguel RICHARDSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Dan CRONIN, Manager of Safety and Excise, and Ex-Officio Sheriff of the City and County of Denver, and Wayne K. Patterson, Warden of the Jail of the City and County of Denver, Respondents-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied February 2, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Gregory Walta, Colorado State Public Defender, Margaret L. O'Leary, Deputy State Public Defender, Denver, for petitioner-appellant.

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Richard F. Hennessey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Mary J. Mullarkey, Sol. Gen., Mary E. Ricketson, John Daniel Dailey, Asst. Attys. Gen., Denver, for respondents-appellees.


QUINN, Justice.

Miguel Richardson (appellant) appeals from the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief and its order that he be returned to the state of Texas as a fugitive. We affirm the judgment.

Appellant was indicted by a Texas grand jury for the offense of capital murder allegedly committed on March 31, 1979. Texas Penal Code Ann. Title 5, § 19.03 (Vernon). He was arrested in Colorado on April 20, 1979, and charged in the district...

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