Dixon v. Duffy

Petitioner was convicted in the California Superior Court in 1949 of making and possessing counterfeiting dies or plates in violation of Cal. Penal Code, 1949, § 480. He did not appeal, but sought to challenge the validity of his conviction by filing successive petitions for a writ of habeas corpus in the California Superior Court and California District Court of Appeal.

Following denial of these petitions, he instituted this case by filing an original petition' for a writ of habeas corpus in the Supreme Court of California. The Supreme Court of California denied the petition without opinion,…