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HAMPSON v. SMITH

No. 11129.

153 F.2d 417 (1945)

HAMPSON v. SMITH, Superintendent of State Penitentiary.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

As Amended January 17, 1946.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Hampson, in pro. per., for appellant.

Smith Troy, Atty. Gen., of Washington, and R. Paul Tjossem and Edwin C. Ewing, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellee.

Before DENMAN, BONE, and ORR, Circuit Judges.

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing a petition for release in a habeas corpus proceeding. Appellant is serving a life sentence in the Washington state penitentiary upon conviction of murder in the first degree of a young woman, a former friend of appellant, by the superior court of Pierce County of that state. The petition was dismissed by District Judge Schwellenbach upon the ground "that the petition presents no question of which this...

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