Hall v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

This is an application by James Percy Hall for leave to appeal from the denial of a writ of habeas corpus after a hearing before Judge Joseph R. Byrnes on July 2, 1957.

Petitioner was convicted of robbery with a deadly weapon in three cases and sentenced to sixty years in the Maryland Penitentiary. Thereafter, he was tried in another case of robbery with a deadly weapon and sentenced to twenty years, consecutive with the sixty year term. At the hearing before Judge Byrnes his principal complaint was that the bail, which he alleges was $400,000.00, was excessive. The question of bail, after a…