WILLIAMS v. BETO

No. 21631.

354 F.2d 698 (1965)

Thomas Lorenzo WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. Dr. George BETO, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 1, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Lorenzo Williams, Huntsville, Tex., George Dixie, (Court-appointed), Houston, Tex., for appellant.

Sam R. Wilson, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Texas, Houston, Tex., Gilbert J. Pena, Asst. Atty. Gen., Waggoner Carr, Atty. Gen. of Texas, Hawthorne Phillips, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Stanton Stone, Executive Asst. Atty. Gen., Howard M. Fender, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, COLEMAN, Circuit Judge, and HUNTER, District Judge.


COLEMAN, Circuit Judge:

This is a case in which the appellant seeks by habeas corpus in the Federal Courts to avoid a state imposed life sentence on the ground that he did not have effective assistance of counsel in the state court trial.

After a full evidentiary hearing, the district court found this collateral attack to be without merit. We affirm.

We are prompted to give this case more than ordinarily extensive discussion because we, too, are aware...

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