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129 F.2d 109

Docket No. 4912.

Wright v. Brady

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided June 30, 1942.

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1942-06-30

2 counsel of record

Relies on Betts v. Brady · Charlton v. Kelly · Glasgow v. Moyer

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Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1942-06-30

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Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1961

6 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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¶1J. Y. Jordan, Jr., of Asheville, N. C., for appellant.

¶2Robert E. Clapp, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. of State of Maryland (William C. Walsh, Atty. Gen. of State of Maryland, and J. Bernard Wells, State’s Atty., and Paul Wolman and Anselm Sodaro, Asst. State’s Attys., all of Baltimore, Md., on the brief), for appellee.

¶3Before PARKER, DOBIE, and NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judges.

¶4PER CURIAM.

¶5This is an appeal from an order denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Defendant was convicted in a state court of the crime of burglary and was sentenced to a term of imprisonment. He complains that the court did not appoint' counsel to defend him, that certain evidence was improperly admitted on the trial and that the evidence was not sufficien! *110for his conviction. It is clear that the failure of the state court to appoint counsel did not amount to a denial of due process or oust the court’s jurisdiction so as to warrant the release of the prisoner on habeas corpus. Betts v. Brady, 62 S.Ct. 1252, 86 L.Ed. -. And certainly the federal court could not review on habeas corpus errors of the state court in the admission or rejection of testimony or the sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction. Woolsey v. Best, 299 U.S. 1, 57 S.Ct. 2, 81 L.Ed. 3; Glasgow v. Moyer, 225 U.S. 420, 32 S.Ct. 753, 56 L.Ed. 1147; Charlton v. Kelly, 229 U.S. 447, 33 S.Ct. 945, 57 L.Ed. 1274, 46 L.R.A.,N.S., 397. The order denying the writ of habeas corpus will be affirmed.

¶6Affirmed.

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