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211 Md. 617

125 A.2d 674

Docket [H.C. No. 28, October Term, 1956.]

Davis v. Warden

DAVIS v. WARDEN OF MARYLAND PENITENTIARY

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided October 9, 1956.

Court of Appeals of Maryland · decided 2001-10-28

Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1972

10 state decisions

Relies on Heath v. State · Thanos v. Superintendent, Maryland State Reformatory for Males · Bowen v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction

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Decided 2001-10-28

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¶1Before BRUNE, C.J., and COLLINS, HENDERSON and HAMMOND, JJ.

¶2HENDERSON, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

¶3This is an application for leave to appeal from the denial of a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner was convicted of statutory rape and sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge *618 Harris, in the Circuit Court for Allegany County. His complaints as to the legality of his arrest, and the improper admission of a confession in evidence, cannot be reviewed on habeas corpus, as we have repeatedly said. The complaint that court-appointed counsel did not properly protect his rights is not a ground for a writ of habeas corpus, in the absence of any allegations of collusion or fraud with State officials, or objections raised in the trial court. Cf. Bowen v. Warden,202 Md. 646, and Thanos v. Superintendent,204 Md. 665. The docket entries show that he waived in writing his right of an indictment and a jury trial, and was properly tried by the court on an information. Cf. Heath v. State,198 Md. 455, 464.

¶4Application denied, with costs.

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