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HARRIS v. ESTELLE

No. 77-2238 Summary Calendar.

583 F.2d 775 (1978)

William Tyrone HARRIS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. W. J. ESTELLE, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 9, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Tyrone Harris, pro se, Melvyn C. Bruder, Dallas, Tex. (Court-appointed), for petitioner-appellant.

John L. Hill, Atty. Gen., Joe Dibrell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chief Enforcement Div., P. E. George, David M. Kendall, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, Tex., for respondent-appellee.

Before RONEY, GEE and FAY, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

This appeal is from a district court judgment denying relief to petitioner in a habeas corpus proceeding. Petitioner's application for habeas corpus relief comes more than twenty years after his 1952 murder conviction in a state court in Texas. The conviction was affirmed in Harris v. State, 158 Tex.Cr.R. 37, 253 S.W.2d 44 (1952). Since petitioner was denied representation by counsel in his appeal from the conviction...

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