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HARRISON v. DYSON

No. 73-2967.

492 F.2d 1162 (1974)

Ruben HARRISON, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Frank DYSON, etc., et al., etc., Defendants-Appellees, Arthur Lee Smith, Intervenor-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 19, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dwight H. Moore, DeSoto, Tex., Edward Walter Dunbar, El Paso, Tex., for plaintiff-appellant.

N. Alex Bickley, City Atty., Lois Bacon, T. Alex Eastus, Asst. City Attys., Dallas, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge, and BELL and GEE, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Plaintiff-Appellants, habitual traffic offenders who claim to be indigent, challenged certain sentencing procedures of the Dallas municipal courts as violating Tate v. Short, 1971, 401 U.S. 395, 91 S.Ct. 668, 28 L.Ed.2d 130, and Argersinger v. Hamlin, 1972, 407 U.S. 25, 92 S.Ct. 2006, 32 L.Ed.2d 530. Their objections were to the alleged automatic conversion of fines to terms in jail, and to...

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