Young v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

This is an application by John Austin Young for leave to appeal from the denial of a writ of habeas corpus by Raine, J., of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County.

The applicant was tried and found guilty on October 25, 1957, of armed robbery by a jury in the Criminal Court of Baltimore City (Warnken, J.). Sentencing was suspended pending a motion for a new trial, but such motion was not filed, and he was sentenced on October 31, 1957, to twenty years in the Penitentiary.

The applicant in his twenty page petition to Judge Raine assigned approximately fifteen reasons why he should be granted the…