Edward C. Cook v. Bilia Morrill, Adult Probation Officer, Bee County, Texas

ROBERT MADDEN HILL, Circuit Judge:

We reaffirm today this court’s previous holding in Martin v. Beto, 397 F.2d 741 (5th Cir.1968), that the sixth amendment right to a trial in the district where the defendant committed the crime does not apply to state prosecutions. In the process we also affirm the district court’s dismissal of the petitioner-appellant’s petition for writ of habeas corpus.

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A state grand jury in Bee County, Texas, indicted petitioner-appellant Edward C. Cook and several others for the felony theft of building materials from a lumber company. The cases received an unusual…