Sanders v. State

OPINION

FULLER, Justice.

This is an appeal from a denial of a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm the trial court’s denial of the writ.

Leon Sanders was convicted of murder on June 3, 1981, and his punishment was assessed at fifty years’ confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections. That conviction was appealed to this Court. In an unpublished opinion, we affirmed the conviction, and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied review. Sanders v. State, No. 08-82-00032-CR (Tex.App.—El Paso 1983, pet. ref’d). A writ of habeas corpus was thereafter filed and relief granted in the United States…