United States ex rel. Austin v. Williams

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order discharging a writ of habeas corpus, sued out by the appellant, Hart Austin, after the Governor of Louisiana, pursuant to a requisition of the Govern- or of Utah, setting forth a duly made charge of burglary committed by the appellant in that state, had issued his warrant directing that appellant be apprehended and delivered into the custody of a named agent of the state of Utah.

The principal complaint as to the discharge of the writ is based upon the consideration by the Governor of Louisiana, and the admission in evidence on the hearing below, of affidavits by residents of Utah that the appellant, whose picture was attached to each of such affidavits, was the person who committed the alleged .crime. Such evidence properly, may be considered in determining whether the person sought to be surrendered is or is not the one charged with crime, and whether he was or was not in the demanding state when the crime is alleged to have been committed. Munsey v. Clough, 196 U. S. 364, 374, 25 S. Ct. 282, 49 L. Ed. 515.

The evidence adduced on the hearing under the writ of habeas corpus was not such as to require the conclusion that the finding of the Governor of Louisiana, evidenced by his warrant of arrest, that the appellant was a fugitive, was clearly overthrown. That finding must stand, as it was not clearly overthrown. Hogan v. O’Neill, 255 U. S. 52, 41 S. Ct. 222, 65 L. Ed. 497. The record does not show that error was committed in discharging the writ.

The order is affirmed.