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WILLIAMS v. BETO

No. 23383.

386 F.2d 16 (1967)

David Gene WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. Dr. George J. BETO, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 1, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David G. Williams, pro se.

Lonny F. Zwiener, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for appellee.

Before WISDOM, BELL and AINSWORTH, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

The prisoner appeals from the district court's denial of his petition for habeas corpus. He contends that a state court's post-trial hearing on the voluntariness of his confession, introduced in the original trial, was a nullity; Texas law does not specifically authorize such a hearing.1 He argues, therefore, that he is entitled either to a full new trial or to issuance of the writ. The district court denied the...

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