Hall v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

Leonard Hall, Jr., applies for leave to appeal from the denial of his application for relief under the Uniform Post Conviction Procedure Act (the UP CPA) by the Circuit Court for Baltimore County (Raine, J.). Hall was tried in that Court in November, 1959, on a charge of murder. The jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree and he was sentenced to death. He appealed to this Court and the judgment was affirmed in Hall v. State, 223 Md. 158, 162 A. 2d 751.

In his amended application under the UP CPA Hall claims that his constitutional rights, both Federal and State, were violated in…