LEEK v. STATE OF MARYLAND

No. 9799.

353 F.2d 526 (1965)

William E. LEEK, Appellant, v. STATE OF MARYLAND, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 22, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry I. Robinson, Baltimore, Md. (Court-assigned counsel) [Sullivan & Pittler, Baltimore, Md., on brief], for appellant.

Julius A. Romano, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Maryland (Thomas B. Finan, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, on brief), for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judge, and MARTIN, District Judge.


J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from an order of the district court refusing to issue a writ of habeas corpus. At the suggestion of petitioner and his counsel, the district court adopted the state courts' findings of the historical facts, which findings were based upon full hearings in post-conviction proceedings and on the transcript of the original trial. The petitioner contends that he was denied his Fourteenth Amendment right of due process by...

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