Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

469 F.2d 1395

Docket No. 72-2206.

Mitchell v. Beto

Second Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1972-10-24

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently December 1972

2 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

Relies on 341 F. Supp. 1368 - St. Johnsbury & Lamoille County Railroad v. Canadian Pacific Railway Co. · Ex parte Mitchell

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Opinion by Per Curiam · Decided 1972-10-24

View the full empirical analysis of this case →

Crawford Martin, Atty. Gen., Roland Daniel Green, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for respondent-appellant.

Ted Fair, Waco, Tex. (Court-Appointed), for petitioner-appellee.

Before DYER, SIMPSON and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

¶1

The court below granted the petitioner-appellee, Alexander Mitchell, a Texas State prisoner, habeas corpus relief from his 1957 conviction for robbery, on grounds of inefffective assistance of counsel. Mitchell v. Dr. George J. Beto, W.D.Texas, 1972. On this appeal, the respondent-appellant has not demonstrated error1 in that ruling.

¶2

The judgment of the district court is affirmed.

1

In 1970, the convicting State district court, following a hearing, recommended the granting of habeas corpus relief. Relief was denied, however, by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Ex parte Mitchell, 462 S.W.2d 28 (Tex.Cr.App. 1971). The proceedings below followed

/469/f2d/1395 · .json · Public domain