MASSEY v. MOORE

Civ. A. No. 7077.

133 F.Supp. 31 (1955)

O'Neal MASSEY, Relator, v. H. E. MOORE, Warden, Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, Texas, Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. Texas, Houston Division.

July 29, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin A. Dow and Jerry M. Hamovit, Houston, Tex., for relator.

John Ben Shepherd, Atty. Gen., of Texas, Will D. Davis, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Texas, and J. Fred Jones Asst. Atty. Gen., of Texas, for respondent.


INGRAHAM, District Judge.

Relator filed his petition, pro se, for writ of habeas corpus in 1952 claiming in substance that he is illegally and unlawfully restrained of his liberty at the State Penitentiary, Huntsville, Texas, in that the judgment of conviction of the District Court of San Jacinto County, Texas, on March 11, 1941, is void for the reason that the Court was without jurisdiction, and making a reference therein to "the question of insanity". In 1952 the...

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