WHITTINGTON v. ESTELLE

No. 81-2475.

704 F.2d 1418 (1983)

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

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 20, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Curtis C. Mason, Staff Counsel for Inmates, Huntsville, Tex., for petitioner-appellant.

Charles A. Palmer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for respondent-appellee.

Before BROWN and JOLLY, Circuit Judges, and MAHON, District Judge.


JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:

A prisoner in the Texas Department of Corrections appeals from a District Court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus alleging constitutional error in the prosecutor's arguments to the jury and in the Court's having admitted evidence of extraneous offenses that may have been committed at the time the defendant was apprehended. Because we find that these occurrences, though disturbing, did not render Whittington's trial...

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