Buie v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction

The applicant for leave to appeal from a denial of a writ of habeas corpus by Judge Raine of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County is serving a seven year sentence in the House of Correction for assaulting a guard at Patuxent Institute.

The applicant contends that he was not responsible for his actions at the time of the assault, because drugs which he alleges he obtained from a dishonest guard aggravated the mental abnormality from which he has suffered since he was struck a hard blow on the head at the age of nine. The record does not show whether the issue of petitioner’s sanity was raised…