BUCHANAN v. McGEE

Misc. No. 1195.

290 F.2d 711 (1961)

Forest Orville BUCHANAN, Petitioner, v. Richard A. McGEE, Director of Prisons and Robert A. Heinze, Warden, California State Prison at Folsom, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

May 19, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Forest Orville Buchanan, Vacaville, Cal., in pro. per.

Before POPE, HAMLEY and HAMLIN, Circuit Judges.


POPE, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner, convicted of murder in the second degree in a California state court, and now imprisoned by the respondents pursuant to the California court judgment, filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Northern Division. That petition was dismissed by the district court without granting to the petitioner a hearing on the facts alleged in the petition. Petitioner now...

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