Midgett v. Warden of the Maryland Penitentiary

This is applicant’s fourth visit to this Court. The circumstances attendant upon the others will be found in Midgett v. Warden, 229 Md. 617, 182 A. 2d 52 (1962); Midgett v. State, 223 Md. 282, 164 A. 2d 526 (1960); Midgett v. State, 216 Md. 26, 139 A. 2d 209 (1958).

Along the way applicant also found time for five habeas corpus petitions and a visit to the Federal courts. Midgett v. Warden, Maryland State Penitentiary, 217 F. Supp. 843 (D. Md. 1963), aff'd 329 F. 2d 185 (4th Cir. 1964).

In the course of a long, careful, comprehensive opinion Judge Harris, who presided at the hearing below,…