VELA v. BETO

No. 58, Misc.

389 U.S. 1025 (1967)

VELA v. BETO, CORRECTIONS DIRECTOR.

Supreme Court of United States.

December 18, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Crawford C. Martin, Attorney General of Texas, George M. Cowden, First Assistant Attorney General, R.L. Lattimore, Howard M. Fender and Lonny F. Zwiener, Assistant Attorneys General, and A.J. Carubbi, Jr., for respondent.


Certiorari denied.

THE CHIEF JUSTICE, with whom MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS joins, dissenting.

This case is another further extension of Spencer v. Texas, 385 U.S. 554, in which the error is more egregious. For the reasons stated in my concurring opinion in Burgett v. Texas, ante, p. 116, I would grant the petition for writ...

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