Legal Opinion
Edward Morgan MacKenna v. O. B. Ellis, Director, Texas Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 20, 1959No. 17213_1PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIVES, Circuit Judge.
This appéal is from a final judgment declining either to grant the Writ of Habeas Corpus or to enter an order to show cause. The district judge, believ*37ing the appeal to be without merit, declined to allow it to proceed in forma pauperis under Section 1915, Title 28 U.S.C.A., and also declined to issue a certificate of probable cause under Section 2253 of said Title. However, on April 4, 1958, a panel of this Court, consisting of Judges Rives, Tuttle, and Jones, granted a certificate of probable cause and the right to appeal in forma pauper-is.
On December 5, 1955, an…
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