CORPUS v. ESTELLE

Nos. 77-1624 and 77-1727.

571 F.2d 1378 (1978)

Julius CORPUS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. W. J. ESTELLE, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee. Thomas Ray VESSELS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. W. J. ESTELLE, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied June 14, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julius Corpus, pro se.

Sylvia Demarest, Dallas, Tex. (Court-appointed), for petitioners-appellants in both cases.

John L. Hill, Atty. Gen., Joe B. Dibrell, Dunklin Sullivan, David M. Kendall, Jr., Gilbert J. Pena, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, Tex., for respondent-appellee in both cases.

Thomas Ray Vessels, pro se.

Before CLARK and GEE, Circuit Judges, and LYNNE, District Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied June 14, 1978.

GEE, Circuit Judge:

These appeals were consolidated because petitioners Corpus and Vessels both claim that they are entitled to credit for "good time" served in Texas prisons pending the appeal of their criminal convictions. Vessels raises the additional issue of whether his state trial was rendered fundamentally unfair by the admission of other-crimes evidence. We deal with these issues in turn.

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