GARRECHT, Circuit Judge.
On March 2, 1946, the appellant filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the court below, reciting that he is illegally imprisoned under a judgment of the Superior Court of King County, Washington dated May 4, 1938, for the term of his natural life, "for the offense of being an habitual criminal". The "proceeding" in which he was sentenced is alleged to have been had by virtue of a certain state statute, "and by virtue of certain judicial...
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