JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.
The District Court denied appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus without an evidentiary hearing. Whether the petition was entitled to be thus disposed of seemed to us a question of sufficient substance in the situation so that we granted appellant's application for a certificate of probable cause to enable him to take an appeal.
Appellant is an inmate of the Minnesota State Prison, under an indeterminate sentence of 40 years...
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