Ex Parte McLain

Today the Court blindly persists in holding that sufficiency of the evidence may not be attacked in a post-conviction writ of habeas corpus under Article 11.07, YA.C.C.P. Were the Court at all interested in examining the history of the rule against entertaining claims of insufficient evidence in post-eonviction collateral attack, it would be compelled to hold quite differently, at least consistent with our current pronouncements about what is cognizable in Article 11.07 habeas corpus. Because the majority does not undertake that examination, I will.

The reason this Court traditionally held…