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LANGSTON v. ESTELLE

No. 76-2941 Summary Calendar.

544 F.2d 1331 (1977)

Joe Wayne LANGSTON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. W. J. ESTELLE, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

As Modified January 25, 1977.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied February 9, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley G. Schneider, Staff Counsel for Inmates, Huntsville, Tex., for petitioner-appellant.

John L. Hill, Atty. Gen., Richel Rivers, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for respondent-appellee.

Before WISDOM, GEE and TJOFLAT, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied February 9, 1977.

PER CURIAM:

Joe Wayne Langston, appellant, is serving a life sentence as a result of a 1966 Texas conviction for murder with malice. He seeks a writ of habeas corpus, complaining that evidence of a "void conviction" and products of an invalid 1962 probation revocation were used to impeach his testimony at trial.

Langston testified on his own behalf at the murder trial. He asserted that his killing...

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