COLLINS v. BETO

No. 21739.

348 F.2d 823 (1965)

Clarence COLLINS, Appellant, v. George J. BETO, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 21, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Sam R. Wilson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Houston, Tex., for appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and HUTCHESON and FRIENDLY, Circuit Judges.


TUTTLE, Chief Judge.

Clarence Collins, presently serving a 99-year sentence in a Texas penitentiary based on a conviction of murder with malice aforethought, appeals from the district court's denial of his petition for habeas corpus. The parties stipulated "that the sole question presented * * * is the admissibility, as a matter of law, of the confession introduced against the relator in this cause."

Collins was charged with having murdered Mrs. Wilma Selby...

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