HEALY, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from a judgment dismissing for insufficiency a petition for release on habeas corpus. The case presents a claim of double jeopardy growing out of two successive trials of appellant before a naval general court-martial.
So far as material to the inquiry, the petition shows the following facts. Petitioner, who is or was an ensign in the Navy, was tried in 1944 before a naval court-martial on charges of murder and assault...
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