APPLICATION OF CHESSMAN

No. 14621.

219 F.2d 162 (1955)

In the Matter of the Application of Caryl CHESSMAN, for a Writ of Habeas Corpus.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

January 11, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Caryl Chessman in pro. per., Jerome Duffy, Berwyn Rice, San Rafael, Cal., for petitioner.

Edmund G. Brown, Atty. Gen. of California, for respondent.


DENMAN, Chief Judge.

Chessman convicted of kidnapping and attempted raping of a young woman in violation of Section 209 of the Penal Code of California1 and other crimes is sentenced to be executed by gas on Friday, January 14, 1955.2 He seeks my certificate of probable cause, required by 28 U.S.C. § 2253, for an appeal, which he has attempted to have noticed below, from a decision of the United States...

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