Williams v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

On November 13, 1952, James Williams, the petitioner here, pleaded guilty and was convicted of rape by Judges W. Laird Henry, Jr., E. Dale Adkins, and E. McMaster Duer in the Circuit Court for Dorchester County and was sentenced to life imprisonment. An application for leave to appeal from a refusal of a writ of hateas corpus was denied by this Court in Williams v. Warden, 209 Md. 641, cert. den. 351 U. S. 974, 100 L. Ed. 1492 (see also Williams v. Peppersack, [sic], 241 F. 2d 614, and Williams v. Peppersack [sic], 250 F. 2d 86, cert. den. 356 U. S. 942, 2 L. Ed. 2d 817). Judge Taylor…