Tommie Heads, Jr. v. Dr. George J. Beto, Director, Texas Department of Corrections

Tommie Heads, Jr., appeals from an order of the District Court denying his petition for habeas corpus relief. We affirm.

In his petition appellant raised a number of grounds which included coerced confession, lack of adequate counsel, and the admission of prejudicial evidence. The District Court found no ground amounted to a denial of constitutional rights. The sole issue on appeal is whether the admission at his state trial for murder of testimony concerning two other murders, for which he was then charged and to which he later pled guilty, was so prejudicial that it amounted to a denial of…