Legal Opinion
Brown v. Jones
District Court, W.D. Texas
Decided November 4, 1974No. EP-73-CA-47PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JOHN H. WOOD, Jr., District Judge.
On this 31st day of October, 1974, came on to be considered Petitioner’s Writ of Habeas Corpus.
The petitioner, Dolphus Jack Brown, was indicted on May 3, 1967, by a Lubbock County, Texas, Grand Jury. The one count indictment alleged the murder with malice of petitioner’s parents, D. J. and Birdie McCauley Brown, in Shallowater, Texas, on April 18, 1967. A change of venue was granted and on October 16, 1968, petitioner was found guilty by a jury in the 34th District Court of El Paso County. The same jury imposed a sentence of thirteen years…
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