Clements v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

The petitioner, Arthur H. Clements, asks leave to appeal from an order of Judge Emory H. Niles, sitting in the Baltimore City Court, denying the petitioner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus.

The petitioner was tried and convicted in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County on a charge of false pretenses. Judge Thomas M. Anderson sentenced him to five years in the Maryland Penitentiary. The petitioner complains: (1) that he was not of sound mind when the crime was committed; (2) that he was still of unsound mind when tried; (3) that his insanity prevented him from knowing right from…