Juan Ruiz Moreno v. Dr. George J. Beto, Director, Texas Department of Corrections

GODBOLD, Circuit Judge.

By petition for writ of habeas corpus appellant asserted in the district court that his confession, admitted into evidence in a Texas state prosecution, was involuntary. The petition was denied in reliance on Henry v. Mississippi, 1 on the ground that strategy employed by appellant’s trial counsel constituted a deliber ate bypass of the Texas state procedure for determination of voluntariness in effect at the time of his trial. Appellant contends that either he should have been released by the habeas court because the confession was coerced or the case should have been…