COLLINS v. BETO

Civ. A. No. 2922.

241 F.Supp. 170 (1964)

Clarence COLLINS, Petitioner, v. Dr. George J. BETO, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent.

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

June 4, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Walsh, Houston, Tex., for petitioner.

Waggoner Carr, Atty. Gen. of Texas, Austin, Tex., and Sam Robertson, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Texas, Houston, Tex., for respondent.


NOEL, District Judge.

Petitioner, Clarence Collins, is a prisoner at the Clemens Prison Farm, a unit of the Texas Department of Corrections located in Brazoria County, Texas, within this district and division. He complains in his application for writ of habeas corpus that his conviction of the offense of murder with malice aforethought in Criminal District Court No. 2 of Harris County, Texas, on December 2, 1960, was procured by the use of a confession obtained from...

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