Renton v. Cronin

The State of Arkansas is seeking to extradite appellant James Renton to answer a charge of capital felony murder. The trial court denied the appellant’s petition for writ of habias corpus which challenged the sufficiency of the requisition papers. We affirm the judgment.

Appellant first contends that the requisition documents do not establish probable cause to believe that he was the person who committed the crime. The documents seek to extradite a person known as “James Ray Renton a/k/a Jimmy Lee Ford.” Appellant admits that the affidavit supports a finding of probable cause that a crime was…