Moore v. Caldwell

Nichols, Justice.

James Edward Moore filed the present appeal from a judgment remanding him to custody in a habeas corpus case. The original petition raised questions not presented at the hearing and the appeal raises questions not touched upon at the hearing, including an alleged arrest for another crime after an escape subsequent to the original conviction.

The trial court in a written opinion treated each contention actually made in the habeas corpus petition. Held:

l.The denial of an appeal which results from the prisoner’s escape after conviction is not a ground for the grant of a writ of…