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CULBERT v. ESTELLE

Civ. A. No. 69-H-418.

359 F.Supp. 122 (1973)

Harold Lloyd CULBERT, Petitioner, v. W. J. ESTELLE, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent.

United States District Court, S. D. Texas, Houston Division.

May 14, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Will Gray, Houston, Tex., for petitioner.

John L. Hill, Atty. Gen., of Texas, Lang A. Baker, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Tex., Austin, Tex., for respondent.

SEALS, District Judge.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER:

This is a Petition for the Writ of Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Petitioner was convicted of the offense of felony theft on September 13, 1965. Upon proof of two prior felony convictions Petitioner was sentenced under the habitual criminal statutes to life imprisonment. He appealed to the Court of Criminal Appeals which reformed the judgment and reduced the punishment to ten (10) years because...

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