William Tyrone Harris v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent

This appeal is from a district court judgment denying relief to petitioner in a habe-as corpus proceeding. Petitioner’s application for habeas corpus relief comes more than twenty years after his 1952 murder conviction in a state court in Texas. The conviction was affirmed in Harris v. State, 158 Tex.Cr.R. 37, 253 S.W.2d 44 (1952). Since petitioner was denied representation by counsel in his appeal from the conviction, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals permitted the petitioner an out-of-time appeal in 1973. This Court also ordered that petitioner be granted an out-of-time appeal or a new…