Davis v. Johnston

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner for a writ of certiorari, also moving for release on bail, a prisoner in the custody of respondent, warden of the United States Penitentiary at Alcatraz, California, has pending here the above entitled appeal from an order denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The ground of the order denying the petition is stated in the order to be “because of the petitioner’s contumacious conduct in court.”

Appellant’s petition for a writ of certiorari seeks to have included in the record in the appeal various letters to and from himself and the judge and various…