Farmer v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

Willie Lee Farmer was convicted of assault with intent to kill and sentenced to a fifteen-year term in the penitentiary. He now seeks leave to appeal from the dismissal by Judge W. Albert Menchine of his petition for relief under the Uniform Post Conviction Procedure Act. Code (1959 Cum. Supp.), Art. 27, secs. 645A-645J.

All of the petitioner’s contentions except one go to the alleged insufficiency of the evidence to convict and are dealt with in detail by Judge Menchine, who dismissed in the Circuit Court Farmer’s application for relief. The remaining con tention, which may merit some further…