Breault v. Wilson

HODGES, Chief Justice.

Appellant Joseph Michael Breault is an inmate at the Colorado State Penitentiary. A request for temporary custody initiated by officials of Saline County, Arkansas, to return appellant to Arkansas for trial on charges of capital felony murder, kidnapping and rape, was filed pursuant to the Interstate Agreement on Detainers, section 24-60-501, C.R.S. 1973.

Consistent with this court’s ruling in Moen v. Wilson, 189 Colo. 85, 536 P.2d 1129 (1975), the appellant challenged his return to Arkansas by petitioning for a writ of habeas corpus in the district court. In support of…