WATERS v. BETO

No. 24697.

387 F.2d 335 (1967)

T. J. Robert WATERS, Appellant, v. Dr. George J. BETO, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 21, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. J. Robert Waters, pro se.

Lonny F. Zwiener, Asst. Atty Gen., Crawford C. Martin, Atty. Gen., of Texas, George M. Cowden, First Asst. Atty. Gen., A. J. Carubbi, Jr., Staff Legal Asst. Atty. Gen., R. L. Lattimore, Howard M. Fender, Robert E. Owen, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, Tex., for appellee.

Before MARIS, THORNBERRY and AINSWORTH, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

This is an appeal from the denial by the District Court for the Northern District of Texas, after an evidentiary hearing, of a habeas corpus petition filed by a Texas state prisoner. The appellant, represented by two court-appointed counsel, was convicted in 1964 of assault with intent to murder his mother by cutting her with a knife. Appellant was never tried in the companion case in which his father was the alleged victim.

The appellant contended...

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