Saul Robinson v. Dr. George J. Beto, Director, Texas Department of Corrections

Appellant Robinson filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, asserting that in his Texas state trial he was denied compulsory process for the attendance of a witness in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments. He claimed that for his trial on a charge of statutory rape he subpoenaed a doctor who had examined the alleged victim in a* hospital where the doctor was a resident physician, and that the sheriff did not serve the subpoena because of a rule, custom or practice of the hospital which barred resident physicians from responding to subpoenas in cases of suspected rape. The…