Legal Opinion
Arthur J. Nathaniel v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 3, 1974No. 73-1341PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEE, Circuit Judge:
Nathaniel believes his troubles may have started with an incident in his childhood. His mother threw an iron and hit him in the head while he attempted to hide from her- under a bed. The trouble which he has brought to this court began when the pólice found him hiding under the house of the woman he had just raped. At other times he says that his troubles started when his mother, the sheriff, and some others sent him away to the insane place. The record indicates that County Court, Wharton County, Texas, adjudicated Nathaniel to be of unsound mind in 1943 and sent him to…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Dusky v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- Pate v. RobinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- John Joseph Blake v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
- Robert v. Bruce v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973
- Huey R. Lee v. State of AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
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3Cited by39 opinions
- Ex Parte McWilliamsCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1982
- William Henry Hance v. Walter D. Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1983
- Geza De Kaplany v. J. J. Enomoto, Director of California Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1976
- Robert Vernon Bruce v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1976
- Aubrey Dennis Adams v. Louie L. Wainwright, and Jim SmithCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985
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