Steele v. Superior Court of California

ORR, Circuit Judge.

By information filed in the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco, appellant was charged with a violation of § 337a of the Penal Code of the State of California, a statute defining as a crime acts commonly referred to as bookmaking and pool selling and providing punishment for the violation thereof. Upon arraignment in the state court appellant entered a plea of not. guilty and thereafter filed with said state court a petition for removal of the cause to the United States District Court for the Northern District of the State of California, claiming to come…