CURRY v. ESTELLE

No. 74-3340.

524 F.2d 981 (1975)

Robert CURRY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. W. J. ESTELLE, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 17, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Ellis, Jr. (Court-appointed), Dallas, Tex., for petitioner-appellant.

John L. Hill, Atty. Gen., Andrew W. Carruthers, Mark Perlmutter, John P. Griffin, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, Tex., for respondent-appellee.

Before GODBOLD, DYER and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.


DYER, Circuit Judge:

Curry seeks habeas relief claiming that he was indicted by a grand jury which unconstitutionally excluded non-freeholders and that his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when his death sentence was commuted by the governor to life imprisonment. The district court dismissed the complaint. We decline to reach Curry's first contention, reject his second and reverse and remand.

Curry was convicted of murder with malice and...

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