Irvine v. California

This case involves constitutional questions growing out of methods employed to convict petitioner on charges of horse-race bookmaking and related offenses1 against the antigambling laws of California.2 Petitioner exhausted all avenues to relief under state procedures and then sought review here of duly raised federal issues.

We granted certiorari3 on a petition which tendered four questions. However, petitioner’s counsel has now presented two additional questions, one concerning the application of an immunity statute of California and another attacking certain instructions given to the jury by…