Comerford v. Hogsett
Opinion of the Court
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PER CURIAM.
This is an appeal to this court from an order of the federal District Court for Massachusetts of December 3,. 1934, dismissing the appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. It appears that the appellant is confined in the state prison at Charlestown, Mass., serving a sentence, and is there held under process of the state court. The appeal is not accompanied by a certificate of probable cause as now required to give this court jurisdiction to entertain such an appeal. USCA, title 28, § 466 ( 43 Stat. 940 , § 6 (d), Act of March 10, 1908, c. 76 ( 35 Stat. 40 ). In this situation the appeal must be dismissed for want of jurisdiction. See Bilik v. Strassheim, 212 U. S. 551 , 29 S. Ct. 684 , 53 L. Ed. 649 ; Ex parte Patrick, 212 U. S. 555 , 29 S. Ct. 686 , 53 L. Ed. 650 ; In re Graves (C. C. A.) 270 F. 181, 187 .
The appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction.
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