The selected excerpts below are taken (with deletions signified by elipses, but otherwise verbatim) from the 5-4 decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, No. 256, October Term, 1964, Billie Sol Estes, Petitioner, v. State of Texas on Writ of Certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas (June 7, 1965). Only-excerpts from the Opinion of the Court and from concurring opinions are presented; dissenting opinions are omitted, since many of these views are presented elsewhere in this issue of the Journal.