Opinion
No. 27567
Decided September 26, 1977. Rehearing denied October 24, 1977.
Trial court denied appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus based on its findings that the extradition documents were sufficient under section 16-19-104, C.R.S. 1973.
Affirmed
1. EXTRADITION — Absence of Photograph — Documents — Defective — Negative. In extradition proceeding, absence of photograph or fingerprint card accompanying extradition documents would not render the documents defective because they failed to identify appellant sufficiently as the individual named in the indictment.
2. NAMES — Identity of Name — Documents — Prima Facie — Sufficient — Statute. Identity of name with the extradition documents is sufficient to establish a prima facie showing of identity; and unless overcome by petitioner's evidence showing lack of identity, the prima facie showing is sufficient to establish identity; the documents were sufficient under section 16-19-104, C.R.S. 1973.
Appeal from the District Court of the City and County of Denver, Honorable Leonard P. Plank, Judge.
Rollie R. Rogers, State Public Defender, James F. Dumas, Jr., Chief Deputy, Ilene P. Buchalter, Deputy, for petitioner-appellant.
J. D. MacFarlane, Attorney General, David W. Robbins, Deputy, Edward G. Donovan, Solicitor General, J. Stephen Phillips, Chief, Criminal Appeals, for respondents-appellees.
[1] This appeal concerns the sufficiency of extradition documents submitted by the State of Kentucky to the Governor of the State of Colorado under section 16-19-104, C.R.S. 1973. At a hearing upon the appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the appellant contended that the absence of a photograph or fingerprint card accompanying the extradition documents rendered those documents defective because they failed to identify him sufficiently as the individual named in the indictment. The trial court denied the habeas corpus petition and found that the documents were sufficient under section 16-19-104. We affirm.
[2] Identity of name with the extradition documents is sufficient to establish a prima facie showing of identity; and, unless overcome by the appellant's evidence showing lack of identity, the prima facie showing is sufficient to establish identity. Hithe v. Nelson, 172 Colo. 179, 471 P.2d 596 (1970); see also Samples v. Cronin, 189 Colo. 40, 536 P.2d 306 (1975).
The judgment of the trial court is affirmed.