Legal Opinion
Benny Dale Alexander v. O.L. McCotter Director, of Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 30, 1985No. 84-2539PublishedCited by 164 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GARWOOD, Circuit Judge.
Benny Dale Alexander, a state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s denial of his application for a writ of habe-as corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, challenging his July 1981 Texas conviction for burglary for which he received, after enhancement for a prior felony, a forty year sentence. The appellant claims on appeal that he is entitled to relief on four separate grounds, each of which the district court' rejected without an evidentiary hearing: 1) that the evidence at trial was insufficient to support the jury’s verdict; 2) that the indictment was…
2Cases cited46 opinions
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- Beck v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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3Cited by164 opinions
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