Ex Parte Aristeo Ponce

TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

NO. 03-97-00493-CR

Ex Parte Aristeo Ponce, Appellant

FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF TRAVIS COUNTY, 147TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

NO. 09708408, HONORABLE FRED A. MOORE, JUDGE PRESIDING

Aristeo Ponce applied for a writ of habeas corpus seeking to prevent his extradition to Arizona. The writ issued and, after a hearing, the district court denied the relief sought. This appeal followed. See Tex. R. App. P. 31.

In April 1990, a Maricopa County, Arizona, grand jury indicted Ponce for manslaughter, the offense alleged to have been committed on June 4, 1988. At the…