MESKILL, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont, Billings, C.J., dismissing appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus alleging that the State of Vermont is barred by the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution from pursuing a retrial after a sua sponte declaration of a mistrial by the state court.
Reversed and remanded.
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