Jay Burton Jones v. Walter E. Craven, Warden

Jones is a California state prisoner, having been convicted of the crime of burglary. Cal. Penal Code § 459. The District Court denied his petition for habeas corpus without having conducted an evidentiary hearing. The record of the state court proceedings is not before us, and, as far as we can ascertain, it was not introduced as an Exhibit in the court below.

In his brief in this court, Jones challenges his state court conviction on numerous grounds which were inadequately presented to the District Court. As an example, Jones claims in his brief that police officers employed impermissibly…