CLIFTON v. BETO

No. 26851.

411 F.2d 1226 (1969)

Claude C. CLIFTON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Dr. George J. BETO, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

May 7, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam R. Wilson, Houston, Tex., for appellant.

Crawford C. Martin, Atty. Gen. of Texas, Allo B. Crow, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., Nola White, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Hawthorne Phillips, Staff Legal Asst., Robert C. Flowers, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for appellee.

Before COLEMAN and GOLDBERG, Circuit Judges, and SKELTON, Judge of the Court of Claims.


PER CURIAM.

The District Court, 298 F.Supp. 1384, denied habeas corpus relief to this state prisoner and he appeals. We affirm.

We must agree with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that Clifton is not entitled to credit for time spent on parole prior to the revocation of his conditional pardon, Ex parte Clifton, 415 S.W.2d 661 (1967).

The facts in Clifton's case are materially...

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