Faught v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

This is an application for leave to appeal from a denial of the writ of habeas corpus by Judge Schnauffer of the Circuit Court for Frederick County. The petitioner was convicted in the Criminal Court of Baltimore in 1953 of assault and attempted robbery and was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary.

The petitioner bases his right to relief on two grounds: first, that the indictment, which he characterizes as “a stocksheet form”, was fatally defective, apparently because it did not 'set forth the time or the place of the crime which he is alleged to have committed, was repetitious and…