TaiLexi AI U.S. Case Law

David A. Smith v. Dr. George J. Beto, Director, Texas Department of Corrections

David A. SMITH, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Dr. George J. BETO, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee

Smith v. Beto, 455 F.2d 522 (5th Cir. 1972)
Download
Format
Include

Star paging (*137) is kept for pin cites.

Court
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · U.S. Courts of Appeals
Decided
March 3, 1972
Docket
No. 71-2974
Judges
Wisdom, Godbold, Roney
Citations
455 F.2d 5221972 U.S. App. LEXIS 10944

Opinion — Per Curiam

PER CURIAM:

Affirmed.

1

See Local Rule 21.

2

1

. In these habeas proceedings, the appellant has contended that his conviction was invalid on grounds that: (1) during his trial favorable evidence was suppressed and he was denied his right to compulsory process because he was not allowed to call his co-indictees to testify on his behalf, a procedure which was then proscribed by Art. 711 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure and Art. 82 of the Texas Penal Code, and later declared violative of the Constitution in Washington v. Texas, 1967, 388 U.S. 14 , 87 S.Ct. 1920 , 18 L.Ed.2d 1019 ; (2) he was coerced into signing an involuntary confession; and (3) he was denied his right to take a direct appeal by his trial court’s failure to appoint an attorney for appellate purposes.

2

. See N.L.R.B. v. Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 5 Cir., 1970, 430 F.2d 966 .

How later courts describe this case

No later court has written an explanatory parenthetical about this case yet.

Cited by 0 cases

No case in this database cites this case.

Authorities cited 2

DepthCaseCited by
Washington v. Texas, 388 U.S. 14 (1967) 2,746
Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. Amalgamated Clothing Workers of Am., Afl-Cio, Local 990, 430 F.2d 966 (5th Cir. 1970) 2,432

Keyboard shortcuts

/Focus the search box
j kNext / previous result
EnterOpen the selected result
xAdd / remove the selected result from the download list
n pNext / previous search term in a case
cCopy the citation of the current case
+ −Larger / smaller reading text
?Show this list