BERMAN v. WARDEN, MARYLAND PENITENTIARY

No. 9292.

333 F.2d 321 (1964)

Louis BERMAN, Appellant, v. WARDEN, MARYLAND PENITENTIARY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 10, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley Sollins and Rolf A. Quisgard, Jr., Baltimore, Md. (Court-assigned counsel), for appellant.

R. Randolph Victor, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Maryland (Thomas B. Finan, Atty. Gen., of Maryland, on brief), for appellee.

Before BOREMAN and BRYAN, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

His plea of insanity notwithstanding, appellant Louis Berman was convicted by a jury in the Criminal Court of Baltimore City, Maryland in 1928 of murder in the first degree. Since that time he has been serving a life sentence passed on the verdict. Having exhausted the remedial steps open to him under the Maryland law, in 1963 he sought habeas corpus in the District Court for his release on the ground that the verdict — a general one of guilty ...

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