Henry Simpson v. Harley O. Teets, Warden, California State Prison at San Quentin

HEALY, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was charged in a California Superior Court of causing his son, Clarence, to murder appellant’s wife, Clarence’s mother. On a trial before a jury a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree was returned against him. The jury determined also that appellant was not insane. A sentence of death was imposed against him. On the mandatory appeal to the state Supreme Court the conviction was affirmed. People v. Simpson, 43 Cal.2d 553, 275 P.2d 31. Habeas corpus proceedings were then brought in the state Supreme Court, the petition for the writ being predicated in…