Reeves v. Warden of the Maryland Penitentiary

The applicant was convicted of rape on October 30, 1959, in the Criminal Court of Baltimore. A motion for a new trial being denied on April 2, 1960, he was sentenced by Judge Byrnes, on April 8, 1960, to life imprisonment. The judgment was affirmed per curiam by this Court on March 13, 1961, in Reeves v. State, 224 Md. 436. His petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States was denied on October 9, 1961. Reeves v. Maryland, 368 U. S. 865. On November 9, 1961, Judge Chesnut, of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, denied his application…