TUTTLE, Chief Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing a petition for habeas corpus in a capital case after full hearing on oral testimony in the trial court. The appellant, a Negro, was indicted, tried, and convicted in the Texas criminal courts on a charge of rape of a white woman.
The basis of the relief sought in the Federal court is the allegation that a confession that was introduced on the trial was coerced by violence and threats of violence...
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