BECKER v. BETO

No. 25199.

391 F.2d 904 (1968)

William C. BECKER, Appellant, v. Dr. George J. BETO, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

April 8, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Hartnett, Dallas, Tex., for appellant.

Robert E. Owen, Lonny F. Zwiener, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, Tex., 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, Austin, Tex., for appellee.

Before COLEMAN, AINSWORTH and DYER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

On September 2, 1965, this appellant was convicted by a jury in a Texas state court of the crime of armed robbery. An appeal to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals was, at his request in open court, dismissed. On July 18, 1966, the petition for habeas corpus relief was filed in the United States District Court. Two of the three asserted grounds for relief were predicated upon Miranda v. State of Arizona1 and United States v...

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