
    No. 247.
    Troche v. California.
    
      Mr. Ray T. Coughlin, with whom Mr. Roland Becsey was on the brief, for appellant.
    
      Messrs. U. S. Webb, Attorney General of California, and William F. Cleary, Deputy Attorney General, were on the brief for appellee.
    Argued December 2, 1929.
    Decided December 9, 1929.
   Per Curiam:

The appeal is dismissed for the want of a substantial federal- question, on the authority of Shulthis v. McDougal, 225 U. S. 561, 569; Hull v. Burr, 234 U. S. 712, 720; Norton v. Whiteside, 239 U. S. 144, 147. Treating the papers whereon the appeal was allowed as a petition for certiorari, as required by § 237 (c) of the Judicial Code, as amended by the act of February 13, 1925 (c. 229, 43 Stat. 936, 938), the certiorari is denied.  