Dyer v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction

Richard Melvin Dyer has made application to appeal from a denial of his petition for the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus by Judge Sodaro in the Baltimore City Court. He was convicted of murder in the second degree on March 12, 1957, in the Circuit Court for Talbot County, and sentenced to serve five years in the House of Correction.

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He first contends that he was “hoodwinked” into signing a confession, and that the statement was taken from him by “out and out fraud”. This Court has repeatedly held that the question of the voluntariness of a confession is one for the trial court, and this…