EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal on behalf of the State of California from a judgment of the district court which granted a petition for writ of habeas corpus. That court directed that petitioner-appellee be released unless within 60 days the state authorities shall have instituted proceedings to retry him on the charge that formed the basis for the conviction complained of. We affirm.
Appellee was convicted in 1958 of possessing narcotics...
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