James Patrick Ryan v. Harry C. Tinsley, Warden of Colorado State Penitentiary

BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Ryan is a persistent petitioner for habeas corpus to obtain relief from a Colorado state court conviction. 1 He now asserts that for many years the districting of the State of Colorado for the election of members of both houses of the state legislature has violated both the state constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. From this premise he argues that no Colorado court is empowered to hear his petition; that the court in which he was convicted had no jurisdiction over him; and that the statute under which he was…