BENTON v. COPINGER

Civ. No. 18872.

291 F.Supp. 141 (1968)

John Dalmer BENTON v. Roger B. COPINGER, Warden, Maryland State Penitentiary.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

October 18, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Thomas Sisk, Washington, D. C., for petitioner.

Francis B. Burch, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, and Edward F. Borgerding and H. Edgar Lentz, Asst. Attys. Gen., Baltimore, Md., for respondent.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

HARVEY, District Judge.

John Dalmer Benton, petitioner, was brought to trial on April 22, 1965 in the Circuit Court for Prince George's County on charges of burglary, housebreaking and larceny. The State dropped the housebreaking count, and following a jury trial on the other two counts, he was found guilty of burglary but not guilty of larceny. Petitioner was sentenced by Judge Parker to a term of ten

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