Ex Parte Stacey

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered in a habeas corpus proceeding on May 14, 1984, ordering the appellant extradited to the State of Alabama to answer a charge of possession of Talwin (pentazo-cine), a controlled substance.

Initially a panel of the Dallas Court of Appeals reversed the judgment and remanded the cause to the trial court. The panel observed that the habeas corpus proceedings were conducted before a magistrate but the record did not contain an order of referral of the case from the district judge…