Legal Opinion
Clarence Collins v. George J. Beto, Director, Texas Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 21, 1965No. 21739PublishedCited by 110 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TUTTLE, Chief Judge.
Clarence Collins, presently serving a 99-year sentence in a Texas penitentiary based on a conviction of murder with malice aforethought, appeals from the district court’s denial of his petition for habeas corpus. The parties stipulated “that the sole question presented * * * is the admissibility, as a matter of law, of the confession introduced against the relator in this cause.”
Collins was charged with having murdered Mrs. Wilma Selby in her home on November 16, 1959. Several days after the killing, Mr. Selby admitted to the police that he had for some time been…
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