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453 F.2d 894

Docket No. 71-1785

Imhoff v. Jones

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided Jan. 14, 1972.

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1972-01-14

Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1974

5 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Texas v. Payton · Leroy Williams v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections, State of Florida

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1972-01-14

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¶1Summary Calendar.*

¶2George C. Imhoff, pro se.

¶3Henry Wade, Crim. Dist. Atty., John B. Tolle, Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, Tex., Crawford C. Martin, Atty. Gen. of Tex., Austin, Tex., for respondent-appellee.

¶4Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, and INGRAHAM and RONEY, Circuit Judges.

¶6PER CURIAM:

¶7The order of the district court denying the appellant’s petition for habeas corpus without prejudice to his right to reapply after he has exhausted his state remedies is affirmed.

¶8 As a matter of comity, federal courts should not determine the legality of a state prisoner’s detention, unless his state courts have first been given the opportunity to consider the case. Therefore, the appellant’s allegations of constitutional deprivations will not be entertained in a federal forum until they have been presented to the courts of the State of Texas, either upon the appellant’s direct criminal appeal, or upon a motion filed pursuant to Article 11.07, Vernon’s Ann.Texas Code of Criminal Procedure. Weaver v. Texas, 5th Cir. 1971, 441 F.2d 388; Thomas v. Decker, 5th Cir. 1970, 434 F.2d 1033; Texas v. Payton, 5th Cir. 1968, 390 F.2d 261.

¶9This panel recently held in Williams v. Wainwright, 452 F.2d 775 (5th Cir., 1971), in an opinion by Judge Roney and a special concurrence by Chief Judge Brown, that a judgment dismiss*895ing a petition for the writ of habeas corpus for failure to exhaust state remedies should specify the state remedies not exhausted by petitioner.

¶10In the case at bar the record does not indicate that there had been a trial in the state court, hence no appeal and no post-trial proceedings.. The petition should have been dismissed for want of jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2254(b) as it is not shown that petitioner was held pursuant to judgment of a state court. But dismissed it was.

¶11Affirmed.

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