Ex parte Adamson

Admiral Dewey Adamson has applied to me as a judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, for a certificate of probable cause. 28 U.S.C.A. § 466 . Applicant was convicted of first degree murder and the death sentence imposed. On appeal the Supreme Court of California affirmed the judgment. People v. Adamson, 27 Cal.2d 478 , 165 P.2d 3 . The Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari and thereafter rendered its decision affirming the judgment of the California courts. Adamson v. California, 332 U.S. 46 , 67 S.Ct. 1672 , 91 L.Ed. 1903 , 71 A.L.R. 1223 . Thereafter, applicant filed a petition for habeas corpus with the Supreme Court of California; that court denied the writ. 68 S.Ct. 610 . Applicant applied for certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States and asked for a stay of execution. Certiorari was denied, as was also the request for a stay. 68 S.Ct. 610 .

Thereafter, applicant presented a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to a judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Southern Division. Said Judge issued an order to show cause and granted a stay of execution. Thereafter the proceedings were…