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HUMPHRIES v. PEPPERSACK

No. 7497.

250 F.2d 575 (1957)

Vernon HUMPHRIES, Appellant, v. Vernon L. PEPPERSACK, Warden, Maryland Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 13, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mathias J. DeVito, Baltimore, Md., for appellant; Vernon Humphries, pro se, on the brief.

James H. Norris, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., of Maryland (C. Ferdinand Sybert, Atty. Gen., of Maryland, on brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOBELOFF and HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from an order refusing to issue a writ of habeas corpus on the petition of a prisoner serving a sentence imposed by a Maryland state court. The appeal must be dismissed for lack of the certificate of probable cause required by 28 U.S.C. § 2253. For reasons adequately stated in the opinion of the District Judge dismissing the petition, we think that appellant is not entitled to such certificate. He has had the legality of his imprisonment...

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