SEWELL v. WARDEN, MARYLAND PENITENTIARY

Civ. No. 14330.

306 F.Supp. 179 (1969)

Robert SEWELL v. WARDEN, MARYLAND PENITENTIARY.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

November 25, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Leckemby, Jr. (court-appointed), Frederick, Md., for petitioner.

Alfred J. O'Ferrall, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Md., for respondent.


THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

In this third habeas corpus proceeding filed in this Court by petitioner, he attacks the racial composition of the Frederick County grand jury which indicted him in the autumn of 1961 and the petit jury which convicted him of first degree murder in March 1962. The other points raised in the petition were abandoned at the hearing. Some of them were considered in an opinion of the Fourth Circuit (No. 9923, July 21, 1965, unreported),

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