THOMPSON v. LYNAUGH

No. 87-5523.

821 F.2d 1054 (1987)

John Russell THOMPSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. James A. LYNAUGH, Interim Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 3, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Stevens, San Antonio, Tex., for petitioner-appellant.

Robert S. Walt, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for respondent-appellee.

Before RUBIN, JOHNSON, and JONES, Circuit Judges.


ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

The petitioner in this habeas corpus case has been condemned by Texas courts to be executed for the crime of capital murder. He contends that he was deprived of his federal constitutional rights in ten respects, urging most strenuously the alleged insufficiency of the evidence to show that he intended to kill a person whom he shot during the course of an armed robbery — an insufficiency alleged to deny him due process in two ways...

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