State Ex Rel. Griffin v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

This is an application for leave to appeal from the refusal of a writ of habeas corpus.

It appears that the applicant was indicted with two other men for murder, and tried in the Criminal Court of Baltimore City on March 18 and 19, 1942, convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to the Maryland Penitentiary for life.

The papers and briefs of applicant in the record are voluminous. He challenges the regularity of the proceedings in his case from the inquest through to his conviction and sentence. He states that the court did not appoint counsel for him, and then again states that…