Ex parte Garcia

Keller, P.J.,

filed a concurring opinion

in which Keasler and Hervey, JJ., joined.

Texas seems to be firmly in the mainstream in its procedures for appointment of counsel in post-conviction habeas cases. Our statutes, like the provision in the federal system, require appointment of counsel on habeas when the trial judge determines that the .interests of justice require it.1 The initial decision is left up to the *566trial court — which appears to be the most common practice among states — but this Court may also require that counsel be appointed. We do so on remand if there is to be a hearing and…