RALPH v. PEPERSACK

No. 9176.

335 F.2d 128 (1964)

William RALPH, Appellant, v. Vernon L. PEPERSACK, Warden, Maryland State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 16, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward L. Genn, Washington, D. C., Court-assigned counsel (Lawrence Speiser, Washington, D. C., Court-assigned counsel, on brief), for appellant.

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

Before BOREMAN and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judges, and BARKSDALE, District Judge.


BOREMAN, Circuit Judge:

Appellant, William Ralph, was convicted of rape and sentenced to death by three judges of the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Maryland, sitting without a jury. His conviction was affirmed by the Maryland Court of Appeals1 and the United States Supreme Court denied certiorari.2 Ralph then filed in the United States District Court for the...

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