State v. Belcher

This case is before the Court on the appellant’s motion to quash Governor Gaston Caperton’s August 28, 1991, order of extradition to the State of Texas. By order dated November 22, 1991, the Honorable John Frazier of the Circuit Court of Mercer County denied the appellant’s motion for a writ of habeas corpus. The appellant, Patricia Sue Belcher, appeals from that final ruling.

The appellant and her husband were married in Texas in 1985. In 1991, her husband filed for a divorce. On April 8, 1991, the husband was given temporary custody of their two children, ages two and four. The divorce was…