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EX PARTE MINES

No. 72906.

26 S.W.3d 910 (2000)

Ex parte Charles E. MINES, Applicant.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

September 13, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Katherine A. Drew, Dallas, for appellant.

Jill A. Durbin, Asst. Dist. Atty., Waxahachie, Matthew Paul, State's Atty., Austin, for State.

Before the court en banc.

WOMACK, J. delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Presiding Judge McCORMICK, MANSFIELD, KELLER, HOLLAND, and KEASLER, JJ., joined.

The issue in this case is whether a person who is sentenced to the punishment of death must be competent to assist his counsel in filing an application for habeas corpus relief. We find no such requirement in the law.

The applicant was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in June, 1989. The judgment has been...

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