THOMAS v. WARDEN, MARYLAND PENITENTIARY

Civ. A. No. 14570.

236 F.Supp. 499 (1964)

Robert L. THOMAS v. WARDEN, MARYLAND PENITENTIARY.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

December 22, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin L. Brown, Baltimore, Md., court-appointed attorney, for petitioner.

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


NORTHROP, District Judge.

Robert L. Thomas having exhausted his state remedies, this court issued a show cause order on his petition for writ of habeas corpus and held a hearing on November 27, 1964.

Before his trial commenced on April 26, 1961, in the Baltimore City Court, Thomas pleaded guilty to six counts of a ten-count indictment charging possession of narcotics, and was then sentenced to ten years, the minimum mandatory sentence under the Maryland statute...

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