In re Harwell ex rel. Heflin

Petitioner Harwell’s writ of habeas corpus was quashed in the El Paso District Court, where he sought release in an extradition proceeding to return him to the state of Oregon.

Harwell was convicted of an adult crime in the Eighth Circuit Court of Baker County, Oregon, after entering a plea of guilty. Although he represented to the Oregon court that he was 20 years of age, he was actually aged 16. After *146judgment of conviction, he escaped from confinement from the adult institution to which he had been sentenced and fled to Colorado. He was apprehended in this state while visiting his mother,…