Ralph v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

The applicant was tried before a three judge court, without a jury, and convicted on January 18, 1961, in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, on a charge of rape and sentenced to death. He appealed to this Court and the judgment was unanimously affirmed. Ralph v. State, 226 Md. 480, 174 A. 2d 163. The Supreme Court denied certiorari. Ralph v. Maryland, 369 U. S. 813, 82 S. Ct. 689, 7 L. Ed. 2d 613. On that appeal applicant contended that the extra-judicial confession admitted in evidence over his objection was not his free and voluntary act (1) because he had been questioned over a long…