Wyman W. Graeber v. Merle Schneckloth, as the Superintendent of the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla, Washington

This case is here on appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington denying a petition for the writ of habeas corpus.

Appellant, along with one McDonald, was convicted in a Washington state court of the crime of robbery. An appeal from the judgment of conviction was taken to the Washington Supreme Court, and the judgment was by that court affirmed. State v. Graeber, 46 Wash. 2d 602 , 283 P.2d 974 . (A full account of the case and of the contentions made by the convicted men will be found in that opinion.) Thereafter appellant petitioned the State Supreme Court for the writ of habeas corpus, and his petition was denied. Likewise denied was his petition for the writ of certiorari thereafter addressed to the Supreme Court of the United States.

The arguments relied on by appellant to obtain the relief he seeks in the present proceeding are, with one or two exceptions, the same as those urged upon the State Supreme Court on the appeal from his conviction. These were considered at length and rejected by that court in its published opinion, supra. We are satisfied that the court was not in error in rejecting the arguments advanced, or in…