White v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

Nathaniel White was tried and convicted on June 14, 1956, before Judge Carter in the Criminal Court of Baltimore on the charge of robbery. His petition for a writ of habeas corpus was submitted to Judge Michael Paul Smith in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, and was denied by him. The applicant complains: (1) of an alleged illegal arrest; (2) that his confession was obtained under duress; (3) that his commission of one of the alleged crimes was impossible because of his alleged incarceration at that time; (4) that he was denied the right to be confronted by witnesses; (5) that his…