Hicks v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

Bruñe, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an application by Leroy Jefferson Hicks for leave to appeal from a denial of a writ of habeas corpus by Judge Lester L. Barrett of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. Petitioner was convicted of armed robbery on August 31, 1955, in the Criminal Court of Baltimore and sentenced to twenty years in the Maryland Penitentiary.

Petitioner sets out a statement of the alleged facts in the case, and questions the weight and sufficiency of the evidence. Such questions cannot be raised on habeas corpus. Williams v. Warden, 211 Md. 621, 125 A. 2d…