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LAWSON v. ESTELLE

No. 72-3629 Summary Calendar.

477 F.2d 119 (1973)

Virgil Gilbert LAWSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. W. J. ESTELLE, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 18, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Virgil Gilbert Lawson, pro se.

Crawford C. Martin, Atty. Gen., Guy C. Fisher, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for defendant-appellee.

Before GEWIN, COLEMAN and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

The district court denied the petition of Lawson, a Texas state prisoner, for the writ of habeas corpus. We affirm.

Appellant was convicted upon trial by jury of burglary and recidivism, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The conviction was affirmed on direct appeal, Lawson v. State, Tex.Cr.App. 1972, 482 S.W.2d 210. In his habeas petition filed in the court below, appellant contended that evidence was introduced at this trial which was the...

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