In re Clifford

This is a request for leave to file and apply for a certificate of probable cause in forma pauperis and on a typewritten petition. That request is granted. 28 U.S.C.A. § 1915 .

This is also an application for certificate of probable cause essential to an appeal from an order of the District Court denying a writ of habeas corpus. The conviction is one under state law. 28 U.S.C.A. § 2253 .

Appellant is held under process of the state court for the crimes of illegally possessing narcotics (§ 11500 of the Health and Safety Code of the State of California) and three prior felony convictions, two of them involving narcotics ; one of possession; and one of smuggling. He was also charged on a second count with bringing narcotics into jail. California Penal Code, § 4573. This second count was dismissed by the trial court. A new trial after conviction on Count I was denied. On appeal, this conviction was affirmed. People v. Woods, 139 Cal.App.2d 515 , 293 P.2d 901 . A petition for rehearing was denied by that court. A petition for rehearing in the Supreme Court of California was denied. A petition for certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States was denied on; February 25, 1957,…