Ex Parte Crawford

NIX, Judge.

The petitioner filed herein a petition for writ of habeas corpus through which she prays for her discharge from a writ of extradition. Petitioner herein resists being turned over to the state of Texas upon the sole grounds that she is not a fugitive from justice as she was not in the state of Texas at the time of the alleged crime.

The facts are that the demanding state contends that the petitioner committed the offense of forgery by writing a $5 check on the 24th day of July, 1958, in the name of B. J. Barton and passing same to Ca-bell’s Minit Market in Midland, Texas. A…