Legal Opinion
Junior Lee Williams v. H. E. Moore, Warden, Texas Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 5, 1959No. 17272PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIVES, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from a judgment declining to grant the writ of habeas corpus or to enter a show cause order. The appellant was convicted of rape in the District Court of Wharton County, Texas, on the 16th day of March 1956. His punishment was fixed at death. On appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, the judgment was affirmed. 1 Two mo-* tions for rehearing were overruled. The District Court of Wharton County, Texas, then pronounced a death sentence upon appellant and directed that it be executed at the State Penitentiary at Huntsville, Texas, on April 24, 1957.
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