Kiney Joseph Davis v. Dr. George J. Beto, Director, Texas Department of Corrections

This is an appeal from the denial of the habeas corpus petition of a Texas state prisoner. 1 In 1957, petitioner was convicted of possession of heroin and sentenced to 60 years imprisonment by the Criminal District Court of Houston, Harris County, Texas. The judgment was affirmed on direct appeal. Davis v. State, 1957, 165 Tex.Cr.R. 2, 302 S.W.2d 419, cert. den., 1961, 364 U.S. 938, 81 S.Ct. 387, 5 L.Ed.2d 370. Since that time, the conviction has been repeatedly attacked in the usual course of piecemeal post-conviction litigation. 2

This court on the last appearance of the case, refused to…