Darcy

Gordon Darcy was convicted in the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Los Angeles in 1949 on five counts of an indictment which charged him as follows: One count of kidnapping with violence and four counts of robbery and three prior felony convictions; and he was thereupon given indeterminate sentences in prison. Upon appeal, his conviction on the count of kidnapping with violence and upon two robbery counts was affirmed; and his conviction upon two other robbery counts was reversed. People v. Darcy, 101 Cal. App.2d 665 , 226 P.2d 53 . Thereafter, Darcy filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus with the California Supreme Court, which was denied, without opinion, upon May 17, 1951. No petition for a writ of certiorari to review said action was sought by Darcy from the United States Supreme Court. Thereafter, Darcy filed another petition for a writ of habeas corpus with the California Supreme Court, attacking the judgment upon the grounds (1) that illegal and prejudicial evidence was offered and received upon the trial of the petitioner,which deprived him of a fair and impartial trial; (2) that evidence known to be favorable to petitioner was…