Chambers v. State

In the habeas corpus proceeding, the district court’s ruling that the crime of burglary in the nighttime was committed is not challenged, but the petitioner, Chambers, contends that there was not probable cause for the magistrate to believe that he was guilty of that crime. His contention is based upon the claim that the evidence was insufficient to identify him as a participant in the commission of the crime because the testimony as to identification was false on its face, inherently improbable and contrary to the physical facts, and that, consequently, there was a failure to establish…