United States Ex Rel. Willie Richardson v. Daniel McMann Warden, Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New York

MOORE, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from, an order denying appellant’s 1 petition for a writ of habeas corpus, for reargument and for a certificate of probable cause without an evidentiary hearing to determine the vol-untariness of appellant’s plea of guilty of second degree murder in the Supreme Court, New York County (28 U.S.C. § 2253).

On March 24, 1963, two of appellant’s relatives were found murdered in their apartment and on the same day appellant was taken into custody. He told the police that he had been in his relatives’ apartment at the time an altercation between them began and…