Brown v. Warden, Maryland Penitentiary

Per Curiam :

The applicant here, Johnnie Brown, seeks leave to appeal from an order of Judge Rasin which dismissed his petition filed in the Circuit Court for Talbot County under the Uniform Post Conviction Procedure Act.

After this Court reversed two earlier convictions, (Brown v. State, 220 Md. 29, 150 A. 2d 895 (1959) and Brown v. State, 222 Md. 290, 159 A. 2d 844 (1960)), the applicant was again found guilty of murdering a Salisbury city policeman and received the death penalty. That judgment was affirmed in Brown v. State, 225 Md. 349, 170 A. 2d 300 (1961). Subsequently, Brown filed his…