Johnson v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction

Judge Cullen of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City denied the petitioner a writ of habeas corpus, and he makes application to this Court for leave to appeal from that denial. He was found guilty on one count of an indictment of a deadly weapon charge and on two other counts of assaults with intent to murder, and was sentenced by Judge Carter to serve five years in the Maryland House of Correction beginning July 22, 1956.

He raises six questions in his application. First, he claims that his counsel was incompetent. In the absence of an allegation that the petitioner complained to the trial…