BOWIE v. STATE

[No. 313, September Term, 1963.]

234 Md. 585 (1964)

200 A.2d 557

BOWIE v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided May 6, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Richard Wilkins for appellant.

John W. Sause, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, William J. O'Donnell and William T.S. Bricker, State's Attorney and Assistant State's Attorney, respectively, for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HAMMOND, HORNEY, MARBURY and SYBERT, JJ.


HAMMOND, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellant, Bowie, a negro man, was convicted in 1945 by Judge Moser, sitting in the Criminal Court of Baltimore without a jury, of sexual assault on a negro woman, and sentenced to life imprisonment. There was no appeal. In 1945 Bowie unsuccessfully sought habeas corpus from a Maryland judge on the grounds that he had been illegally arrested and that evidence had been erroneously admitted against him at his trial...

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