Elliott v. Warden, Maryland Penitentiary

THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by a State prisoner, who is presently serving a life sentence after a conviction of first degree murder in the Criminal Court of Baltimore (Tucker and Cullen, JJ., without a jury), his *417original death sentence having been commuted to life imprisonment by Governor McKeldin.

Petitioner is pressing three contentions in this Court: (1) that he was denied an examination with respect to his mental competency to stand trial, which he claims his counsel requested before the trial began; (2) that his conviction was obtained by…