Ben Lee Brown v. Walter E. Craven

ELY, Circuit Judge:

Brown is a California state prisoner, confined as a result of his conviction of the crime of second degree murder. After exhausting available state court remedies, he filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the court below. The District Court called for and received a written response to the petition and thereafter denied the petition without having conducted an evidentiary hearing. Brown appeals.

We have concluded that the judgment must be reversed. Brown’s petition set forth, in fine detail, numerous allegations of infringement of state and federal rights, including…