WALKER v. PEPPERSACK

No. 8655.

316 F.2d 119 (1963)

Cornelius WALKER, Jr., Appellant, v. Vernon L. PEPPERSACK, Warden, Maryland Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 27, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel J. Meador, Charlottesville, Va. (court-assigned counsel) [F. D. G. Ribble, Charlottesville, Va., on brief], for appellant.

Robert F. Sweeney, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Maryland (Thomas B. Finan, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, on brief), for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and BOREMAN and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judges.


BOREMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by Cornelius Walker, Jr., a prisoner of the State of Maryland, from a decision of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland denying relief in habeas corpus proceedings and dismissing his petition.

Walker was tried on December 22, 1959, in the Criminal Court of Baltimore before a judge, without a jury, on a charge of armed robbery. He was found guilty and was sentenced to imprisonment for a term...

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