Henry Deleiano Harris v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of Corrections

CLARK, Circuit Judge:

The district court dismissed the ha-beas corpus petition of Texas prisoner Henry Harris on the merits as to every claim he advanced. On this appeal Harris urges essentially seven errors in his trial proceedings: (1) failure to afford him a preliminary hearing; (2) denial of a jury shuffle; 1 (3) impermissibly suggestive line-up; (4) his trial counsel’s erroneous stipulation to the validity of constitutionally invalid prior convictions; (5) systematic exclusion of blacks from the petit jury; (6) deprivation of his Sixth Amendment right to counsel at certain preliminary…