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BRUCE v. BETO

No. 25341.

396 F.2d 212 (1968)

Robert Vernon BRUCE, Appellant, v. Dr. George J. BETO, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

May 27, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Vernon Bruce, pro se.

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

Before GODBOLD and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges, and McRAE, District Judge.

PER CURIAM:

Appellant, a state prisoner appealing from the denial of the Writ of Habeas Corpus by the court below, was convicted of murder with malice of his wife, and the jury set the punishment at life imprisonment. Appellant was sentenced on November 2, 1965, and on direct appeal the judgment was affirmed. Bruce v. State, 402 S.W.2d 919 (Tex.Cr.App. 1966). His application for Writ of Habeas Corpus to the Texas Court of Criminal...

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