Thomas Lorenzo Williams v. Dr. George Beto, Director, Texas Department of Corrections

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge:

This is a case in which the appellant seeks by habeas corpus in the Federal Courts to avoid a state imposed life sentence on the ground that he did not have effective assistance of counsel in the state court trial.

After a full evidentiary hearing, the district court found this collateral attack to be without merit. We affirm.

We are prompted to give this case more than ordinarily extensive discussion because we, too, are aware of those considerations which prompted Judge Burger in his concurring opinion in Williams v. United States, 120 U.S.App.D.C. 244, 345 F.2d 733…