Canter v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction

This application was filed by William Canter for leave to appeal from the refusal'of a writ of habeas corpus.

Petitioner alleged that in July, 1954, he was found guilty by a jury in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County on the charge of robbery with a deadly weapon, and that he was sentenced to the Maryland State Reformatory for Males for a term not to exceed six years, but he was later transferred to the Maryland House of Correction.

Petitioner contended that the evidence produced at his trial was not sufficient to prove the charge against him, but that the whole case was simply “the…