Lucas v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

This is an application by James A. Lucas for leave to appeal from a denial of a writ of habeas corpus by Judge Michael Paul Smith of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. Petitioner was convicted of criminal assault on February 29, 1956, in the Criminal Court of Baltimore and sentenced to four years in the Maryland Penitentiary.

Petitioner sets out a lengthy statement of the alleged facts in the case, and challenges the veracity of a witness against him. His contentions go to the weight and sufficiency of the evidence and to the question of his guilt or innocence. Such questions cannot be…