Legal Opinion
Huffman v. Beto
District Court, S.D. Texas
Decided October 28, 1966No. Civ. A. No. 65-H-450PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NOEL, District Judge.
Memorandum, and Order:
Petitioner, presently confined in the Ellis Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections, has filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C. § 2242.
The petitioner was convicted in the District Court of Caldwell County, Texas, in 1951 of burglary, and was sentenced as a habitual offender to life imprisonment. Vernon’s Ann.Tex.Penal Code art. 63. The predicate for the sentence as a habitual offender was a conviction in Montgomery County, Texas, in 1943 for robbery by assault, and another conviction in Montgomery County in 1948 for felony theft.
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2Cases cited26 opinions
- Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Carnley v. CochranSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
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3Cited by7 opinions
- State v. HerbertSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1967
- Ex parte HuffmanCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1967
- Davis v. SlaytonDistrict Court, W.D. Virginia · 1973
- Abercrombie v. StateIdaho Supreme Court · 1967
- Abercrombie v. StateIdaho Supreme Court · 1967
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