Collins

Collins, now confined in the California Penitentiary at Folsom under sentence by a California court after conviction by a jury of the crimes of burglary in the first degree, assault with a deadly weapon and grand theft, seeks release here through the writ of habeas corpus.

An order to show cause why the writ should not issue was entered herein. In-response thereto the Attorney General of California has filed a return on behalf of respondent together with a record of the proceedings in the state trial court, including a transcript of the testimony at the trial and a transcript of the proceedings taken at the time of the discharge of the Public Defender as counsel for him.

Collins appealed the judgment to the District Court of Appeal of the State upon the grounds essentially the same as those which he sets forth in his petition' to this court. The judgment of the trial court was affirmed. People v. Collins, 117 Cal.App.2d 175 , 255 P.2d 59 . A petition for a rehearing addressed to that court, a petition to the Supreme Court of the State of California for a hearing and a petition for certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States were all denied, 346 U.S. 803 , 74 S.Ct. 33…