NATHANIEL v. ESTELLE

No. 73-1341.

493 F.2d 794 (1974)

Arthur J. NATHANIEL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. W. J. ESTELLE, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 3, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Yancey White, Corpus Christi, Tex. (Court-appointed), for petitioner-appellant.

John L. Hill, Atty. Gen., Glenn R. Brown, Lang A. Baker, Gilbert Pena, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, Tex., for respondent-appellee.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, and RONEY and GEE, Circuit Judges.


GEE, Circuit Judge:

Nathaniel believes his troubles may have started with an incident in his childhood. His mother threw an iron and hit him in the head while he attempted to hide from her under a bed. The trouble which he has brought to this court began when the police found him hiding under the house of the woman he had just raped. At other times he says that his troubles started when his mother, the sheriff, and some others sent him away to the insane place. The...

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