BUTZNER, Circuit Judge:
The District Court for the District of Maryland denied Phillip Shorey's petition for a writ of habeas corpus after a plenary hearing. Shorey was sentenced to death on June 7, 1961, upon the verdict of a jury of the Criminal Court of Baltimore City convicting him of rape and burglary. His conviction was affirmed on appeal, Shorey v. State,
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