SIMMONS v. LEACH

No. 80SA299.

626 P.2d 164 (1981)

Woody Ray SIMMONS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Brad LEACH, Sheriff of Boulder County, State of Colorado, Respondent-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

March 23, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Richard F. Hennessey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Mary J. Mullarkey, Sol. Gen., Clement P. Engle, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for petitioner-appellant.

G. Paul McCormick, Boulder, for respondent-appellee.


ROVIRA, Justice.

The petitioner, Woody Ray Simmons, appeals from the district court's discharge of his writ of habeas corpus and the order requiring his extradition to the State of North Carolina. We affirm the district court.

Simmons was first arrested by Colorado authorities as a fugitive from justice on May 23, 1979. Having been released on bail pending the issuance of the Colorado governor's warrant, he was ordered to be discharged on June 22, 1979, because...

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