UNITED STATES of America ex rel. George PHILLIPS, Appellant, v. J. Vernal JACKSON, Warden, Appellee.

No. 249, Docket 20573.Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
May 28, 1947.

Appeal from an order of the District Court for the Northern District of New York, denying a petition for habeas corpus for insufficiency in law upon its face.

George Phillips, pro se.

Irving Galt, of New York City, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Atty. Gen., of New York (Wendell P. Brown, Sol. Gen., of Albany, of counsel), for appellee.

Before L. HAND, CHASE, and CLARK Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed upon the authority of the opinion below, 72 F. Supp. 18; except that we accept for argument that the petition set forth enough facts to show that Bird’s confession had been unlawfully coerced.

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