Edwin Lowell Loftis v. Dr. George J. Beto, Director, Texas Department of Corrections

RONEY, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a denial of a petition for writ of habeas corpus brought by a Texas state prisoner. The petitioner’s primary complaint is that his co-defendant wife was allowed to plead guilty in the presence of the jury which tried petitioner. He contends that he was thereby deprived of his right of confrontation under the Sixth Amendment and that this procedure was fundamentally unfair in violation of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The district court denied relief on the ground that any such error was harmless in view of the overwhelming…