General
Johnston v. Texas
384 U.S. 1024·Supreme Court of the United States·1966
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Opinion
No. 1370,
Misc.
Johnston v. Texas.
Herman Fitts for petitioner. Waggoner Carr, Attorney General of Texas, Hawthorne Phillips, First Assistant Attorney General, T. B. Wright, Executive Assistant Attorney General, and Howard M. Fender, Larry Craddock and Gilbert J. Pena, Assi^nt Attorneys General, for respondent. Melvin L. Wulf and Sam Houston Clinton, Jr., for American Civil Liberties Union et al., as amici curiae, in support of the petition.
[MAJORITY]
Ct. Crim. App. Tex.