Brown v. Jones

The District Court denied a writ of habeas to a Texas state prisoner on the sole basis of the opinion of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rendered on petitioner’s direct appeal from his conviction. The habeas judge did not have before him the record of the proceedings in the Court of Criminal Appeals or the trial transcript.1. The order denying the petition states that the court has “examined the proceedings before the Court of Criminal Appeals,” that the opinion of that court correctly sets forth the law on the matters involved, and that it “finds from this record that none of…