WOMACK v. CRAVEN

No. 24132.

431 F.2d 1191 (1970)

Edison R. WOMACK, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Walter E. CRAVEN, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied October 22, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dean L. Bender (argued), San Francisco, Cal., for petitioner-appellant.

Daniel Kremer (argued), Deputy Atty. Gen., Thomas C. Lynch, Atty. Gen., Sacramento, Cal., for respondent-appellee.

Before MERRILL and CARTER, Circuit Judges, and THOMPSON, District Judge.


JAMES M. CARTER, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, an inmate of Folsom State prison, sentenced as an habitual offender and serving various consecutive sentences, petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus which was denied without hearing by the district court. Essentially he claims that a conviction on November 18, 1965, in the California State Superior Court in Yolo County, for robbery and kidnapping, adjudged him an habitual criminal based upon prior convictions in 1938 and...

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