George Thomas Bevins v. John H. Klinger, Warden

BARNES, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a denial of a writ of habeas corpus by the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, Central Division, after conviction and appeal in the state courts.

Jurisdiction existed below pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241, and exists here pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253.

Since this case has been placed on our calendar, appellant has requested leave, in writing, “to drop every other contention regarding my case and abandon my appeal excepting for the adjudication of the Habitual Criminal Act.”1

*754People v. Taylor, 155 Cal.App.2d 26, 317 P.2d…