LUTON v. STATE OF TEXAS

No. 19680.

303 F.2d 899 (1962)

Leo Daniel LUTON, Appellant, v. The STATE OF TEXAS, and H. E. Moore, Warden, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 15, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William VanDercreek, Thomas L. Ryan, Dallas, Tex., for appellant.

Phil Burleson, Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, Tex., for appellees.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and RIVES and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


TUTTLE, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court dismissing appellant's petition for habeas corpus. In his petition in the trial court appellant asserted that he was under conviction and sentence of electrocution for murder committed during an armed robbery; that he was denied the effective aid of counsel by the state court in which he was tried; and that he had been denied other constitutional rights in the conduct of the trial or the pretrial...

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