HOLT v. PEPPERSACK

No. 7492.

249 F.2d 653 (1957)

Joseph R. HOLT, 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.

Joseph R. Holt, pro se, on the brief, and James H. Norris, Jr., Special 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 dismissing a petition for writ of habeas corpus by a prisoner serving a sentence imposed by a Maryland state court. Appellant contends that he was sentenced under a count of an indictment to which he had pleaded not guilty and for a crime of which he had not been convicted. He was accorded a full hearing by the District Judge, who delivered a lengthy oral opinion finding that his contention was without merit and that in...

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