WILLIAMS v. MOORE

No. 17272.

262 F.2d 335 (1959)

Junior Lee WILLIAMS v. H. E. MOORE, Warden, Texas Department of Corrections.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 5, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas H. Dent, Galveston, Tex., for appellant.

B. H. Timmins, Jr., and Linward Shivers, Asst. Attys. Gen., Will Wilson, Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and RIVES and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment declining to grant the writ of habeas corpus or to enter a show cause order. The appellant was convicted of rape in the District Court of Wharton County, Texas, on the 16th day of March 1956. His punishment was fixed at death. On appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, the judgment was affirmed.1 Two motions for rehearing were overruled...

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