WEINFELD, District Judge.
Relator is imprisoned pursuant to a judgment entered in April 1945 on the verdict of a jury which, in accordance with New York's then existing procedure, was permitted to determine the factual dispute as to the voluntariness of his confession, as well as the ultimate issue of guilt or innocence under a general verdict—a procedure which the Supreme Court, in Jackson v. Denno,
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