RALPH v. PEPERSACK

Civ. No. 13693.

218 F.Supp. 932 (1963)

William RALPH v. Vernon PEPERSACK, Warden, Maryland State Penitentiary.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

July 1, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward L. Genn, Silver Spring, Md., for petitioner.

Thomas B. Finan, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, and Robert F. Sweeney, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Md., for respondent.


THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

Ralph was convicted of rape and sentenced to death by three Judges, sitting without a jury, in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County on January 18, 1961. On appeal from that conviction he argued one proposition — that the extrajudicial confession admitted in evidence over objection was not his free and voluntary act: (1) because he had been questioned over a long period of time, (2) because the confession was procured as the result of...

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