Webster v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction

This is an application for leave to appeal from the denial of a writ of habeas corpus by Judge Byrnes, who filed an opinion to the effect that the petitioner’s contention “that the weight of the evidence was against the verdict” is not a ground for relief. Code (1951), Art. 42, sec. 5, provides, among other things, that a judge “in refusing to issue, or denying, or granting any writ shall file a substantial but succinct statement, either in writing or by dictation to the stenographer for the court records, setting forth the grounds of the application, the questions involved, and the reasons…