Juan Enriquez v. Raymond K. Procunier, Director, Texas Department of Corrections

POLITZ, Circuit Judge:

The genesis of this appeal from a denial of 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas relief dates to April 25, 1966 when Juan Enriquez shot to death his girlfriend, her father, her brother, a woman he abducted, and a Texas Highway Patrolman. On October 19, 1966, a jury convicted Enriquez of capital murder of Kay Foss, the abductee, and imposed the death penalty. The conviction was affirmed on direct appeal. Enriquez v. State, 429 S.W.2d 141 (Tex.Crim.App. 1968). The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. That conviction is the subject of the present petition. In four other…