Kenneth D. Edmondson v. Warden, Maryland Penitentiary

The appellant is in the Maryland Penitentiary serving a twelve-year sentence for carnal knowledge of an insane woman. Without holding a hearing, the District Court denied appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus, and assigned two reasons therefor: (1) that the petitioner has not “sought to invoke the remedies provided by the Maryland Uniform Post Conviction Procedure Act, including the appeal provisions thereof”; and (2) that the petitioner’s allegation that no evidence of penetration was adduced at the original trial was a matter relating to the sufficiency of the evidence, a ground…