Clarence Mahurin v. E. v. Nash, Warden, Missouri State Penitentiary

Petitioner, a Missouri state prisoner,, seeks to have us review the District. Court’s denial of a certificate of probable cause and to have such a certificate issued by a judge of this Court.

The District Court had denied petitioner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus on its face, and refused his request for a certificate of probable cause to enable him to appeal. The Court’s memorandum pointed out that petitioner had filed eight previous such applications presenting essentially the same questions, of which denials similarly had been made.

Disposition of those applications, however,…