Edward Morgan MacKenna v. O. B. Ellis, Director, Texas Department of Corrections

In seeking to formulate a dissent to the exhaustive opinion filed by the majori'cy, I think it appropriate to quote from a Supreme Court opinion an epitome of the spirit in which a federal judge should approach the consideration of a case which may result in setting aside a State court decision in a criminal case:

“ * * * in reviewing a State criminal conviction under a claim of right guaranteed by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, from which is derived the most far-reaching and most frequent federal basis of challenging State criminal justice, ‘we must be deeply mindful of…