ELLIS v. FITZHARRIS

No. 21332.

377 F.2d 543 (1967)

Edgar M. ELLIS, Appellant, v. C. J. FITZHARRIS, Department of Corrections, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 23, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene Epstein, Cominos, Shostak & Epstein, Salinas, Cal., for appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Atty. Gen. of Cal., Robert R. Granucci, James A. Aiello, Deputy Attys. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before JERTBERG and BROWNING, Circuit Judges, and TAYLOR, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

The district court denied appellant's petition for habeas corpus without a hearing. The court concluded on the basis of the record of a state court hearing that appellant's confession was not the product of coercion. In examining the state court record, the district court followed the procedures suggested by Justice Frankfurter in his opinion, concurred in by Justice Stewart, in Culombe v. Connecticut, 367 U.S. 568, 603...

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