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WRIGHT v. WARDEN

App. No. 176, September Term, 1970.

11 Md. App. 673 (1971)

276 A.2d 411

ELIJAH WRIGHT v. WARDEN, MARYLAND PENITENTIARY.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 28, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph H. Thomas, Jr., for applicant.

Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and Howard L. Cardin, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, for respondent.

Before MURPHY, C.J., and ANDERSON, MORTON, ORTH, THOMPSON, and POWERS, JJ.

PER CURIAM:

On December 18, 1964, Elijah Wright was arrested and charged with murder. He was taken into custody at that time and has remained incarcerated to the present time. Approximately two years after his arrest, Wright was tried and found guilty by a jury of murder in the second degree.1 The trial judge sentenced him to eighteen years, the maximum then provided for murder in the second...

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