This is an appeal by the People from an order of the superior court directing that defendant "be released pursuant to a writ of habeas corpus" unless he is granted a new trial on the charge of which he was convicted in 1960. The ground of the superior court's decision was that in defendant's 1960 trial a confession was received in evidence in violation of the federal constitutional principles announced in Jackson...
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