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FORBES v. ESTELLE

No. 77-1161 Summary Calendar.

559 F.2d 967 (1977)

John Weldon FORBES, Petitioner-Appellant, v. W. J. ESTELLE, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 21, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary D. Jackson, Dallas, Tex., Emmett Colvin, (Court-appointed), Dallas, Tex., for petitioner-appellant.

John Weldon Forbes, pro se.

John L. Hill, Atty. Gen., John Pierce Griffin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Joe Dibrell, Chief, Enforcement Div., David M. Kendall, Jr., Walter C. Prentice, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, Tex., for respondent-appellee.

Before GOLDBERG, CLARK and FAY, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

This appeal is taken from an order of the district court dismissing the habeas corpus petition of a Texas state prisoner. We affirm.

The appellant was convicted by a jury of being an accomplice to murder with malice and was sentenced by the jury to 3,000 years imprisonment. Forbes v. State, Tex. Cr.App. 1974, 513 S.W.2d 72, cert. denied 420 U.S. 910, 95 S.Ct. 830, 42 L.Ed.2d 840.

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