WHITE v. BETO

No. 20404.

322 F.2d 214 (1963)

Ernest Leroy WHITE, Appellant, v. Dr. George J. BETO, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, State of Texas, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 23, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. G. Davis, Sam R. Wilson, Asst. Attys. Gen., Huntsville, Tex., Waggoner Carr, Atty. Gen. of Texas, Austin, Tex., Gilbert J. Pena, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for appellee.

Before JOSEPH C. HUTCHESON, Jr., GEWIN and GRIFFIN B. BELL, Circuit Judges.


GEWIN, Circuit Judge.

The appellant White complains of the ruling of the U. S. District Court denying his petition for writ of habeas corpus. He had been 3 times convicted of non-capital felonies, the last one being the offense of burglary and was sentenced to life imprisonment in accordance with a Texas statute. Vernon's Ann.P.C. Art. 63. In the District Court the petitioner claimed a denial of due process of law under the 14th Amendment for 3 principal reasons:...

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