JACKSON v. BETO

No. 24470.

388 F.2d 409 (1968)

Robert Eddie Louis JACKSON, Appellant, v. Dr. George J. BETO, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 13, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. H. Brown, Houston, Tex., for appellant.

Douglas H. Chilton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for appellee.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, and HUTCHESON and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Appellant is incarcerated under sentence of death, having been convicted by a Texas jury of murder with malice. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction, Jackson v. State, 403 S.W.2d 145 (1966), and later refused habeas corpus. We affirm the denial of federal habeas corpus relief.

An initial challenge is to the trial court's receipt of testimony relative to an inculpatory statement...

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