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VAN SKIKE v. BETO

No. 24503.

398 F.2d 407 (1968)

Betty Yates VAN SKIKE, Appellant, v. Dr. George J. BETO, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

July 11, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Farrar, Clyde W. Woody, Houston, Tex., for appellant.

Lonny F. Zwiener, Austin, Tex., for appellee.

Before JONES, WISDOM, and THORNBERRY, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

In June 1964 a jury found Betty Yates Van Skike guilty of murder with malice. The court sentenced her to a term of two to ten years in the state penitentiary. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed her conviction. Van Skike v. State, 388 S.W.2d 716. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied her petition for habeas corpus. June 15, 1966, she petitioned the court below for a writ of habeas corpus. She...

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