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THOMPSON v. WARDEN, MARYLAND PENITENTIARY

No. 11712.

413 F.2d 454 (1969)

Herbert A. THOMPSON, Appellant, v. WARDEN, MARYLAND PENITENTIARY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 28, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Graham C. Lilly, Charlottesville, Va., (Court-appointed counsel) [Gail Starling Marshall, Charlottesville, Va., (Court-appointed counsel) on the brief] for appellant.

Alfred J. O'Ferrall, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Maryland (Francis B. Burch, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, on the brief) for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and BRYAN and CRAVEN, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

In the 1962 prosecution of Herbert A. Thompson before the Criminal Court of Baltimore, Maryland, for first degree murder and rape, his confession, now disavowed as involuntary, was received in proof, and the jury found him guilty. After pursuing unsuccessfully all State remedies, he applied to the District Court for release, by habeas corpus, from the sentences of imprisonment, assigning the confession's admission as a trial error of constitutional gravity...

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