William Tyrone Harris v. Dr. George J. Beto, Director, Texas Department of Corrections

This is an appeal from a denial of habeas corpus after an evidentiary hearing.

There was no denial of court-appointed counsel on appellant’s 1952 appeal from a state court conviction for murder. At his trial and on motion for new trial he was represented by retained counsel, who did not represent him on appeal because his fee for an appeal was not paid. The findings of fact made at the evidentiary hearing, which we do not find plainly erroneous, require the conclusion that it was not made manifest to the trial judge that appellant did not have counsel for appeal, or that appellant had become…